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Wednesday 27 April 2016

GAIL Indian Speedstar - Promoting young talents across India

GAIL, the well-known Indian PSU in field of Natural Gas Production and distribution has been making new business highs since its advent in 1984. As a corporate it has been doing different CSR activities and has now embarked into a new domain of promoting Young athletes from grassroots level. GAIL has done partnership with National Yuva Cooperative Society for this initiative called “GAIL Indian Speedster” whose goal is to find young athletes across length and breadth of India who are extremely talented and can be potential great hopes for India in future Olympics. National Yuva Cooperative Society has tied up with Anglian Medal Hunt Company as its Technical Partner for The GAIL Indian Speedstar project


The reason to launch this program is to identify, select and nurture the hidden talent in athletes. The targeted age group is 11 - 17 years in 100m, 200m and 800m track events across. The Project has goals to create a pool of athletes with knack which will possibly bring honor for India in track events at the highest echelon of sporting events - the Olympics 2020/2024. A panel of eminent sportspersons like P.T Usha, Rachita Mistry, Anuradha Biswal and Kavita Raut have been appointed in the selection committee to support selections and guide coaching camps. As members of the selection committee their role would include creating the selection criteria or the GAIL-Indian Speedstar program, and developing the training plan and module for the selected athletes at the National Level. Dr Ashutosh Karnatak, Director (Projects) GAIL (India) Ltd, Rajesh Pande, President, National Yuva Cooperative Society Ltd and Maneesh Bahuguna- CEO, Anglian Medal Hunt Company were also present during launch of the project in New Delhi.



District trials were conducted under the watchful eyes of coaches and selectors, appointed by the selection committee. The selection of the athletes was based on talent identification and selection criteria set by the selection committee. Initiatory, in its first year, earlier this year with initial trials conducted at 55 districts across 10 states in which more than 25,000 children participated out of which 850 children made it to the State level.

The first State level camp and trial was organized on 27-28th of February in SawaiMaan Singh Stadium, Jaipur where 60 boys and girls participated out of which 4 have qualified for the next level. The state trials were held in Odisha (14 Selection), Delhi (28 Selection), Kerala (28 Selection) and Jharkhand (4 Selection) followed by Maharashtra and Gujarat in the last week of April. The shortlisted children from the State trials will then participate in the National camp and selection which is scheduled to be held in May 2016 at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi. Shortlisted athletes from state trials will attend an intensive national level camp. At the conclusion of the coaching camp, final trials will be held. Winners will be selected based on the qualification criteria and their potential. The winners will be given extensive training throughout the year. The top 9 athletes will then be provided with a world class coaching for over a period of 5 years with an ultimate objective of one of these athletes to represent India at the Olympics.


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