Retired 1982 batch IAS officer Shishir Sinha has been appointed the primary vice chancellor of the Bihar Sports activities College, positioned at Rajgir in Nalanda district.
IAS officer Shishir Sinha has been appointed the primary vice chancellor of the Bihar Sports activities College at Rajgir in Nalanda district. (HT picture)
A notification to this impact was issued by the federal government Saturday night. Sinha had taken voluntary retirement from service in 2018 when he was the Growth Commissioner.
Although the federal government determined to arrange a sports activities college in July 2018 solely, three years later in July 2021 the Bihar Legislature handed the Bihar Sports activities College Invoice and after the gubernatorial nod, it was notified within the State Gazette. The passage of the invoice had coincided with the Olympics.
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had on August 29, the Nationwide Sports activities Day, inaugurated the state’s first sports activities Academy and Bihar Sports activities College, which can be a part of the Worldwide Sports activities Complicated at Rajgir. The Asian Ladies’s Hockey that includes six worldwide groups can also be to be performed on the complicated in November.
Sinha may have the arduous accountability of heading the state’s first sports activities college, which is geared toward constructing the sporting tradition that went lacking in Bihar over the previous couple of a long time regardless of some particular person gamers making a mark and supply a platform for gamers in varied disciplines to excel on the nationwide and worldwide occasions.
The federal government has already appointed IAS officer Rajnikant, a local of Nalanda, because the registrar of the college. He was additionally given the cost of appearing VC until the appointment of an everyday incumbent. By the way, Rajnikant additionally took voluntary retirement after his tenure as DM.
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Nonetheless, publish voluntary retirement, Sinha, who is taken into account near the CM and is the son-in-law of veteran BJP chief Dr CP Thakur, has been getting key positions like many different bureaucrats. Earlier he served because the Chairman of the Bihar Public Service Fee (BPSC) and Chairman of the Bihar Electrical energy Regulatory Authority.
Senior IPS officer Reveendran Shankaran, Extra DG, Bihar State Sports activities Authority, has been given the extra cost of Director Normal of the Bihar State Sports activities Academy.
Although the primary goal of the Academy is to supply nationwide and worldwide gamers in varied streams by offering the fitting ambiance, services, and coaching, which have been lacking within the state, it stays to be seen how far this huge undertaking is ready to ship to vary the sporting profile of the state.
The current Ranji Trophy matches on the dilapidated Moinul Haq Stadium, which as soon as hosted worldwide matches, drew lots of flak in social media, however earlier this month the Bihar Cricket Affiliation (BCA) was granted its 30-year lease by the state authorities for its redevelopment as a global stadium with all trendy services with help from the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI).
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The 1983 Indian World Cup successful staff member and TMC MP Kirti Azad mentioned sports activities was a extremely specialised and technical area and wanted professionals to take it ahead.
“Making the structure of an academy is not a big thing, running it professionally certainly is. It requires the expertise of sportsmen. Why we had to leave Bihar? Simply because it did not have anything bro support and sustain sports. Unfortunately, not much has changed. The approach needs to change,” he added.
One other worldwide cricketer Amikar Dayal mentioned roping in sportsmen who’ve the eagerness and experience would assist.
“It would have been better had the government given some key positions to sportsmen. IAS officers can be good administrators, but that is not the only thing that sports requires. Having a sports academy and sports university are good initiatives, but ultimately it all boils down to sporting spirit, atmosphere and expertise,” he added.