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SAG releases grant for Goa Jr athletics team NT Sports Reporter
Panaji,
Sept 4 With the SAG releasing a cheque for Rs 64,000 this evening, the
Goa junior athletic team will ultimately participate in the west zone
junior athletic championship to be held in Vadodara, Gujarat, from
September 7-9.
Mr
V M Prabhudesai, SAGs executive director, told The Navhind Times that
despite Goa Athletic Associations (GAA) late submission of the
proposal on August 26 and the hiccups threafter which prompted the GAA
to drop the team, the participation grant was readied today. Mr
Francisco Sardinha, president of the association and Congress president
is learnt to have advanced the money. In fact, one of the association
members was asked to meet him yesterday, but it was the failure on the
part of this member to meet Mr Sardinha that things went haywire,
leading to the cancellation. However, things got sorted out this
morning after the sorry plight of the 24 boys and girls, who were told
by GAA that they would not take part in the nationals despite having
worked hard during the conditioning camp, was highlighted in The
Navhind Times that the SAG agreed to release the grant, although at the
beginning the GAA was told that it would not be possible to release the
money due to some technical reasons from the accounts section. The team
will now leave tommorow by train.
Meanwhile,
two sportsloving personalities - Mr C K Kamat from Margao and Mr Kishor
Narvekar from Merces - in a spontaneous gesture came forward to advance
the money to GAA after reading the news item in The Navhind Times so
that the young athletes were not deprived the chance of participation
for no fault of the boys and girls.
Mr Paresh Kamat, jt secretary, GAA, told The Navhind Times that
efforts were on to secure rail reservation from the VIP quota.
http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=090531
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