The Indian Sports Centre (ISC), a body of the Embassy of India, will organise as many as 35 major sport events, including football coaching camp, cricket matches, SAARC community football festival and inter school girls cricket among many more.

“ISC under its 2019 annual event calendar has formed 10 sections for games like football, cricket, volleyball & basketball, athletics, golf, aquatics & water sports, table tennis, tennis & badminton; yoga & fitness and ladies games,” said Nilangshu Dey, President of ISC.

Dey was speaking at a press conference yesterday at Radisson Blu Hotel to announce ISC’s mission and objective by the newly elected managing committee for the term 2019 — 20. The press conference was attended by several officials of ISC, including Habib Un Nabi, General-Secretary; Abdulrahiman E P, Vice-President; Sharafu P Hameed, Vice-President and Nish Agrawal, Joint Secretary.

The President of ISC highlighted the mission of ISC to develop youngsters in sports and games through professional coaching after identifying the talents from the Indian community.  “The foremost objective of ISC is to initiate and lead the Inter community tournaments in various games like volleyball, table tennis, cricket, athletics, badminton etc. by collaborating with respective Qatar games federations to promote a friendly and sportsmanship environment among various expatriate communities,” said Dey.

He said that ISC’s another mission is to nurture sports experts from Indian community by identifying their talents by organising inter school, inter organisations and inter companies tournaments.

“This also gives an opportunity to promote various games among those blue collar workers of those companies on regular basis and to identify any hidden talent among them,” said Dey.

Dey also highlighted that this year Sports Excellence Day is planned on September 21 to recognise the achievements in sports excelled by boys, girls, men and women of different age groups of Indian community.  “Indian Sports Centre’s one of the prime objectives is to support FIFA 2022 and accordingly it has collaborated with Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy in their various community engagement programmes since it has signed a memorandum of understanding with them in June  2017,” said Dey.

Abdurahiman E P announced that ISC will start its few facilities shortly in its own premises. Initially, rental option is being considered with a plan of having its own premises in future.

Sharafu P Hameed highlighted the initiative to enrol more than 40 companies as corporate member of ISC within this term 2019 -20 to heavily involve the Indian workers in sports and games which will bring a high level of motivation amongst them.

Date – Time:10 Mar 2019 – 8:48