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Fitness is the core of this campaign and the additional advantage is that if an individual qualifies with 75% + in Sports & Physical Aptitude Test (SPAT), he or she would get a grant from the Haryana Government. The process for choosing is SPAT, a one-of-its kind campaign. The scheme involves seven standardised tests: battery-vertical jump, ball throw, broad jump, bend-&-reach, 30-metre flying, 6X10 shuttle and 800 metre race.

The initiative has been well received and the first test attracted 46,000 boys and girls in the age group of 8 to 19 years and 1,600 candidates qualified. Under the scheme, a fitness-based monthly incentive of Rs.2,000 will be provided to athletes in the age group of 14 to 19 and Rs.1,500 in the age group of 8 to 14.

Says Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, "Our State has a very high playground density with 345 stadiums, most of them at block and village levels. We wanted to engage our young men in constructive activities and sports seemed to be a perfect choice."

The campaign is claimed to be corruption-free. "We wanted to build an efficient, corruption-free delivery system. People have liked our direct-to-athlete approach. It's about conditional cash transfer in the form of sports scholarship provided the beneficiary athlete comes to the playground 22 days a month and stays away from drugs and anti-social behaviour. We are introducing SPAT in all schools across the State, private as well as government, and hoping to take the participation figure to near 20 lakh," says Mr. Hooda.

Source: The Hindu By Vijay Lokapally New Haryana scheme to promote sports

Mr Hooda announced that the state government has taken a number of initiatives to promote sports in the state. As many as 1606 promising players have been identified from the State as part of the Sports Talent Hunt Programme, who are being given scholarships and training, he added. He said that 171 stadia are being constructed at village, block and district levels, and 69 of them have already been completed.

While showering number of projects at the prestigious Rai sports school, the Chief Minister said that the sports facilities in the sports school were being upgraded. A multi-purpose hall is being constructed at the cost of crores of rupees. The State Government has sanctioned Rs. 4.5 crore as financial assistance for the same. Beside this, the sanction for the 10 lane Synthetic Track and Synthetic Lawn Tennis Courts project has been granted, which would incur Rs. 8.77 crore. A shooting campus and boys' hostel are also being planned for the school, he added. He lauded the performance and achievements of the school in the field of education and sports. He expressed hope that the new Hockey Stadium would go a long way in enabling the players to improve their performance in this game of skill and stamina. He described Hockey is the national pride.

Mr. Hooda said that the State Government is encouraging outstanding sportspersons by giving them employment opportunities. Sports complexes of international level have been set up at Panchkula, Faridabad, Gurgaon and Sirsa. A sports complex equipped with all modern facilities is being set up at Rohtak over an area of 90 acres. A hockey Astro-turf has already been laid at Shahbad at a cost of Rs. 35 lakh. Another hockey Astro-turf has been laid at Gurgaon. A synthetic track for athletics has been laid at Panchkula at a cost of Rs. four crore, he further added.

Source: www.indianews.org.in Haryana Started 46 Sports Nurseries

The fire department has been asked to prepare a disaster management plan for the shooting event, officials said Friday.

'The plan should focus on the activities of their department, including the equipments available with them,' a senior police officer said.

The competitions of shooting during the Games are scheduled to be held in the range of the Kadarpur Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Gurgaon.

Authorities have assured tight security arrangements in the city during the mega sporting event.

Source: Sify.com Gurgaon in preparation mode for CWG shooting event

Bahdu informed that interested athletes may contact to the concerned district secretaries. The athletes should bring original date of birth certificate issued from the Education Board (only certificate of 10th class is valid) certificate issued from Municipal Committee/CMO. (The Open school certificate will not be entertained). He further added that athletes should contact for the registration and competitions to Jitender (Situ), Secretary, DAA Jind at the athletics ground of CBSM Sports School, Nidani at 8 a.m on the respective days.

Bhadu revealed that only those athletes will be selected who will qualify the laid down standard of AFI and HSAA.

Vandana and her family are all praise for the DLF City Club and tell us just how much fun they have catching up with friends and enjoying cuisines in the club on many occasions. GM Raman Khanna agrees that he and his team make sure that they not only maintain the existing infrastructure, but also continuously plan for better facilities, more exciting themes and different cuisines.

Ritu is not a very active club member since her busy schedule makes it rather difficult to squeeze regular time but she is rather glad that her teenage son is able to derive the maximum benefit and pleasure by indulging in regular tennis or squash followed by an energizing drink and appetizing snacks. As a family, they enjoy musical evenings and feel comfortable in the knowledge that this a suitably safe hangout for their youngsters.

She mentions how clubs have recently become extremely popular for holding birthday parties since it provides ample space for kids to run around eat, drink and have a fun time. Many clubs also encourage coaching classes, be it swimming, Salsa or tennis and this ensures that Sunita gets to spend quality time with her husband at the bar upstairs where they get moments of peace and catch up on the day, while the older lot catches a game of tambola with friends! While youngsters enjoy the bar with their famous kebabs for company, many a businessmen settle crucial deals in these very precincts.

Source: Jagrancityplus.com By Meenakshi Sharma Club culture taking off in Gurgaon

The District Cricket Association (DCA) is in touch with multinational companies (MNCs) and industries located in the cyber city to buy the franchisee of the teams for the Gurgaon Premier League (GPL).

"It is in the planning stage. The aim is to nurture talent at district levels. It will also employ cricketers who have failed to reach the international level. The tournament will be held on the pattern of the IPL. A few MNCs have already shown interest and we will reveal details at the appropriate time," said Rajendra Kataria, deputy commissioner of Gurgaon, who is also the DCA chairperson.

Sources said six teams would participate in the Twenty20 tournament. With this tournament, the administration is also expecting players from Gurgaon to reach international levels.

"Players from Gurgaon have participated in the Ranji and Duleep trophy matches but somehow they failed to make it to international cricket, may be because of lack of infrastructure," said DCA secretary O.P. Taneja.

Source: Mail Today by Faizan Haider Gurgaon gears up to host an IPL-style cricket tournament

The Sports and Youth Affairs Department of Haryana is organising a talent hunt programme and young budding sports persons between the age of 8 and 19 years can get themselves registered, an official release said here.

The release said that Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has desired that beneficiaries for the 'Athlete Support Scheme' of the Sport's Department be identified through an open competition and an annual budget of over Rs six crores has been earmarked for this scheme.

The District Sports Officers in all districts of the state have been entrusted the task to identify at least 500 young boys and girls between the age of 8 and 19 years in each district who have aptitude for sports and physical activities.
The department expects to identify over 10,000 such budding sports persons in the state.

The sportspersons so identified would be administered through a battery of standardised tests named as Sports and Physical Aptitude Test (SPAT). The test score will then be fortified with additional fields of information like medals won by the person in recognised tournaments, his or her background, height, weight, blood group, preferred sports event, parents income and occupation, the release said.

A database in percentile format will be maintained which shall have data that would enable the stakeholders including government, sports federations, corporate foundations and individual sports enthusiasts - to know more athletes and reach out to them directly, the release added.

Twelve nations (Australia, Argentina, Canada, England, Germany, India, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Spain, South Africa) are drawn in two Pools (A and B) and play each side in their group once before the classification matches take place.

Germany are the current holders and a win in New Delhi will see them become the first side to win the trophy for the third consecutive time.

England finished fifth in 2006 but as reigning European champions have targeted a semi-final berth in India.

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Cup holders Germany will be looking to prove themselves worthy of being ranked No 1 in the world after missing out on the European title and the Champions Trophy last year.

Champions Trophy holders and medal winners at the last four Olympics, Australia are favourites to join Germany in the 1st v 2nd place match on the final day of the tournament.

Source: telegraph.co.uk By Emily Benammar Hockey World Cup 2010: complete tournament guide

This was stated by Gopal Kanda, State Minister for Home, Industries and Sports at Sirsa today. He said that Haryana Sports Authority would look after the work of construction of stadia and their maintenance, besides conducting various sports activities in the State. A sum of Rs.56 crore was being spent for the promotion of sports in the State during the current financial year, he added.

He pointed out that more sports nurseries and sports wings were being set up in the State. The sportspersons of Haryana were fully prepared for taking part in the ensuing commonwealth games. They were being imparted training at various places. It was a matter of pride for the state that commonwealth games would commence from CRPF stadium at village Kadarpur in district Gurgaon.

Kanda said that law and order situation in the State was much better. The Police Department was being provided more facilities to further beef-up law and order in the State.

In reply to a question regarding protection of women, Kanda said that women police station would soon be set up at district level to protect the rights of women. The complaints of women were being registered on priority basis in the general police stations.

Speaking on the development of district Sirsa, the Minister said that Sirsa would be an model district in the State in the matter of development. A number of new development projects of crores of rupees were in the pipeline and on the completion of these projects the Sirsa district would certainly become a leading district of the State.

On Sunday, while paragliding, parasailing, skydiving and hot-air ballooning took place all around him, Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced the opening of the Rajiv Gandhi National Centre for Aero Sports at Bachhaud air strip near Narnaul, Mahendragarh. The centre will work towards giving youngsters a platform from which to understand the science of aviation, and also to get up close and personal with the more adventurous side of aviation.

Captain Satish Sharma, chairman of the Aero Club of India, stood side by side with the CM as the aero centre was declared open.

The centre, named after late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, has been set up by the Department of Civil Aviation, Haryana, in collaboration with the Aero Club of India. The centre will be developed along international lines and, it is hoped, will help give a fillip to India's participation at world aero sports events. Up to now our participation in such events has been woefully limited.

Sanction has already been given for the purchase of an ultra-modern, multi-engine simulator at a cost of Rs 1.25 crore to help better training facilities at Karnal. It has also been proposed that a flying training academy be set up in the state. In addition, air strips at Pinjore, Narnaul, Hisar and Bhiwani will be further developed.

The centre, it is planned, will provide cheap training and facilities to the people who cannot afford it by charging more from the people who can afford it and who dabble in aero sports as a hobby.

Source: Times Of India By Sumi Sukanya Let dreams soar at this flying club near Gurgaon

Information to this effect was shared by P.V. Rathee President, HOA while interacting with media persons during the final match of Meer Iqbal Hussain Trophy held at Gurgaon on Tuesday that initially 15 Sports Club would be set up at Shahbad, Ameen and Kiloi as these three places represents the best teams of women hockey, volleyball and basketball respectively.

The national sports meet would be organized by the HOA in the month of February 2010. Later on, teams for ensuing Commonwealth Games would be selected.

While giving this information here today, Minister of State for Sports and Youth Affairs department, Gopal Kanda said that sports events in various disciplines, such as 100 meter, 200 meter and 300 meter athletic track event and long jump, high jump, triple jump, shot put, discus and javelin under athletic field event would be organized during the competition. He said that two sportsperson from each district in the age group under 19 years and above in each discipline would participate in the competition.

The Minister said that those secured first, second and third position in the competition would be awarded cash prize. Besides this, 1134 track suits costing above Rs.4.50 lakh would also be given to the participants, he added.

As per the new bylaws, the property owner on whose premises the tower is to be installed will have to obtain a licence from the competent authority.

Disclosing this here today, Gurgaon Deputy Commissioner Rajender Kumar Kataria said according to the bylaws, the maximum height of a communication tower from the ground level should not exceed 30 metres, subject to clearance from the defence, civil aviation and doordarshan authorities.

The location of the communication towers shall be governed by radio frequency system adopted by the application and shall be allowed subject to some conditions.

The first condition is that the communication towers shall be installed only in the commercial or other public areas. Where it is not possible to install the communication tower in commercial or other public areas, a possibility shall be explored to install them in park or green belt within residential areas, open spaces or community buildings.

"In case it is not possible to find such suitable spaces on the said sites, then such towers can be permitted on the rooftops of the residential buildings, subject to the condition of structural safety certificate issued by a designated institute," he said.

Source: tribuneindia.com Licence must to get communication towers installed

Thailand's Benyappa, who finished third at the Jakarta World Juniors 2009, and UAE's Serifa, winner of the Ladies BMW Open, Dubai are some of the top foreign names at the event.

Aditi Ashok, who is in category C, has already participated in many international junior golf championships including the US World Junior Championship 2008 at Pinehurst, USA. She won the 2009 South Zone Junior Golf Championship and and the All India Ladies Golf Championship title in bronze category at Eagleton, Bangalore.

He also announced the appointment of wrestler Ramesh Kumar Gulia, who won gold medal at international level, as DSP in Haryana Police. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 23rd Haryana State Games organised at the campus of Maharshi Dayanand University in Rohtak, he also talked about the steps taken by the government to promote sports, and added that the number of sports nurseries has now increased to 46 and sports stadiums in the name of former Prime Minister late Rajiv Gandhi were being constructed in 171 villages of the state.

He also said that a modern sports complex was being developed on 90 acres of land in Rohtak. A synthetic athletic track was being laid at Panchkula at a cost of Rs 4 crore and astroturfs had been laid at Gurgaon and Shahbad.

Announcing a bonanza for the sportspersons, the Chief Minister said that now the gold medal winner of National Games would get Rs. 3 lakh, the silver medal winner Rs 2 lakh and the bronze medal winner Rs 1 lakh. Earlier, the medal winners of these games were given Rs. 51000, Rs. 31000 and Rs. 11000, respectively. He said that the state government was spending Rs. 56.48 crore during this financial year for promotion of sports in the state.

While referring to the incentive being given to the outstanding sportspersons, he said that a sum of Rs 5000 per month was being given as honorarium to the Arjun and Dronacharya awardees. He said that Rs 14.31 crore had been disbursed among the award winners during the last four and half years. Hooda said that a new sports policy had been formulated as a result of which sportspersons were participating in a large number in this mega event.

Source: The Indian Express Sports Academy and Sports University in the state soon: Hooda

The three-day event, which will also see participation from Canada, UAE, Sri Lanka and Korea, will tee off on the at the Classic Golf Resort.

Juniors like Arshbeer Saini, Arjun Singh, Harshjeet Singh Sethi and Gurbaaz Takkar would be among the India golfers in the tournament that would be played over 54 holes with no cut.

Among others, American Jordon Knight, Poom Saksansin of Thailand, Korean Sun Woo Choi, Sai Ganesh of Dubai and Sri Lankan Harsha de Silva would add the foreign flavour.

"Our endeavour is to provide the best facilities for the junior golfers so that they can compete at the international level.

Announcing this at a press conference here on Thursday, the Director of the championships, Subrata Dutta, said that around 300 athletes and officials from 39 countries were expected to take part.

"Many countries were concerned about the security aspect. Otherwise, the number of participating countries could have gone up to 60," Mr. Dutta said.

Mr. Dutta said private security personnel would be hired to conduct the meet smoothly. Besides, the International Powerlifting Federation has requested the Union Sports Ministry to provide security for international athletes.

India will conduct the Worlds for the second time. It had hosted the event last time in Kolkata in 1981.

At present there were many industry that were investing their capital in the real estate business in India.Both the foreign and the Indian business are expecting to investing in India. There are some of the major industry who are promoting the real estate business in India. The industry are HDFC property Fund, DHFL Venture Capital Fund, Kotak Mahindra Realty Fund, Kshitij venture capital fund which is a venture of the Pantaloons Retail India Pvt. Ltd. And ICICI's real estate fund, India's advantage fund which is regulated under the SEBI's venture capital funds. These are actually the closed ended schemes that are accompanied with a initial public offer with a discount on the NAV amount. However there is a long line of the foreign investors who are willing to invest their capital in the real estate sectors of India. They are US operated Warburg Pincus, Blackstone group, Broadstreet, Morgan Stanley, Columbia endowment Fund, Hines, Tishman speyer and Sam Zell's Equity Interantional and JP morgan Partners etc.

The real estate business has also well developed in Gurgaon. Various reputed builders like the DLF, Unitech, Vipul, Vatika, JMD, Omaxe Parasvnath, Suncity Projects ltd are ctually transforming th elife of the people living in Gurgaon. There were several malls built up in the Gurgaon area which gives us the feeling of living in a foreign country. The commercial centers like IMT Manesar, Pace City, Infocity and that of the Udyog Vihar have made Gurgaon to be the commercial hub of India. It has also got world class skyscrapers like Global Foyer, Vatika Tower, Augusta Point etc are captivating to our eyes.

Thus it is noted that the real estate in India are in its initial stage and there is a strong hope that it will increase in the near future.