SAI signs MoU with GNDU
NEW DELHI: The Sports Authority of India (SAI) and Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) signed an MoU on Friday to lay a synthetic hockey surface at the university campus in Amritsar. The cost of laying the hockey pitch would be borne by SAI while GNDU would look after its upkeep.
The hockey field will be used not only by the GNDU players but also for holding national camps and inter-SAI tournaments. Speaking of the initiative, the Union Sports Minister, M.S. Gill , said that SAI would be signing similar MOUs with others reputed institutions in the future to facilitate faster laying of such synthetic hockey surfaces across the country.
The minister also said that, the SAI governing body had decided recently to lay 20 smaller synthetic hockey surfaces for broad-basing and promoting hockey on a large scale.
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It is better to have full size fields rather than spending time and moeny on smaller hockey fields. Beacuse, the expenditure would really account almost to 70% of the full size fields. The transportation charges of taking the materials would again be the same for either for smaller or larger surface areas. Laying out small surface area limits the practise of skills like long hits, scoops and players got to stick to the usual habit of hanging on to the ball with skills such as Indian driblles, flicks and pushes. Though smaller fields would enable to improve skills, but there is a big difference in playing between small and bigger courts. You demand greater fitness while playing in bigger fields…..Why not a full open field without stadias with just a 1 meter wooden fence all around it, for protecting the ball being getting damaged? Facilitating water recycle should be another aspect to be thought of while laying playfields.