Hockey buff and educationist Dr. Dharam Veer Singh announces formation of a hockey academy in Harkrishan Public School, Amritsar, of which he is the principal. He is also in command of the environment being the Joint Director of the Chief Khalsa Diwan, the apex body that manages the group of prestigious educational institutions.
He made the invaluable and far reaching decision during a brief but impressive ceremony held in the campus of Harkrishan Public School, GT Road, Amritsar recently.
“We are introducing the game of hockey for the first time in this GT Road school. Shortly, hockey will be there all the member schools in the chain of Harkrishan Public Schools we have”, Dr. Dharam Veer Singh declared on 10th September, while witnessing his wards practicing the game.
The school was motivated to go in for hockey by the known hockey enthusiast Prof. Pramjit Singh Randhawa of the same city.
In a subsequent press release, Dr. Dharam Veer Singh stated that Harkrishan School XI will be made just as striking a force in the domestic circuit as Namdhari XI. He promised to set an academy where the budding hockey players will be trained by national level coaches. He said that there was time when Punjab and Sikhs in particular dominated the hockey world. “Who can ever forget S. Dharam Singh, our Olympic hero who hailed from Amritsar”, he asked.
“It is sad irony that hockey which brought eight Olympic gold medals to the country is the most neglected game today”. It is out of sync with our sporting ethos that the people of our country are die-hard fans of cricket — a game of glitz and glamour — whereas hockey, our national does not have a fan following.
During the occasion, Prof Randhawa gave an inspirational speech to the students during the assembly. He opined if the Principal Dr. Dharam Veer Singh’s initiatives take shape, hockey in the region will witness a revolution of sorts.
S2h expects the same and also wishes the premier institution a success in its future sports initiatives in particular hockey.
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Hockey is in our soil .. in our hearts … it is the only sport india has dominated for years … bt now every1’s attention has been dragged away from this beautiful game… The problem lies for hockey in the fact that we have not been able to market it properly.Not a single advertising firm or company has shown interest in selling its products or marketing it using a hockey theme only when ppl start taking interest in other sports will media coverage increase and then sponsor’s will step in…….nobody is stopping ppl from watching cricket but they should support other sports as well…… We shud not forget that Hockey is the only game which made us proud by winning 8 gold medals nd 6 out of them were won in a row in olympics…
well,its nt only hockey tht we have to improve, all other sports shud also b given as much importance as we are giving to cricket… for e.g sports which are in olympics…The reason behind India’s poor performance in sports is due to the attitude of indians towards sports…we are not paying attention towards these games… children should take interest in other sports also…every1 is just moving towards cricket…M not against cricket but there shud be a balance in all sports like other countries are having….This is there secret of success….those people are not after only one game,they pay attention towards all other activities and sports also….
Harveer Arora,
student of
DAV college amritsar
Harkrishan public Schools can bring Hockey Revolution,if the Chief Khalsa Diwan’s(CKD)managment tries to promote Hockey by consituting the Hockey Academy and forming a Harkrishan Public School Hockey team of 11 players team like ‘Namdharis’.If you turn the pages of Golden History of Indian Hockey,you will find many Sikh Hockey stars has brought Lawrence not only to Hockey and but also to Sikhism.Some of the Sikh Hockey Stars are Balbir Singh,AjitpalSingh, Prithpal Singh,Harmeek Singh,Gurbaksh Singh,Mukhbain Singh,Harvinder Singh Chimni,Pargat Singh but now the golden history of Sikh Hockey Stars should be Repeated.Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee(SGPC)and Chief Khalsa Diwan(CKD)should come forward to Promote Hockey.I really Appreciate Harhrishan public school for introducing Hockey for the first time.
God Bless them!!
According to me Hockey is the game of “Pride” and “Standard”,it cannot be played in streets,lanes,terrace of buildings like cricket.Cricket is not a Game,it a way to Earn money.Hockey inspite of being National Game is not so much popular,where as Cricket being an outsiders game is liked and is promoted by Indians.People have more craze for cricket as compared to other games like Football,Basketball,Table Tennis and the most important hockey,which is to shameful.So,I appeal the readers and young youth not to neglect hockey but you should come forward and fulfil your responsibility towards national game as the time demands it.
I WOULD LIKE TO THANKS AL THE READERS OF STICK2HOCKEY.COM WHO ARE POSTING THEIR MESSAGE APPRECIATING MY EFFORTS TO PROMOTE HOCKEY IN THE SCHOOLS.
FROM – PROF. PARAMJIT SINGH RANDHAWA
DAV COLLEGE AMRITSAR
MOBILE NUMBER-09815535410
Pargat singh,Udham singh,Balbir singh,Mukhbain singh,Varinder singh,Prithipal singh,Ajitpal singh are d worth noting names in d indian hockey team..We should repeat the golden history of hockey…In Chak de India also Shahrukh Khan gives his stick to a sikh boy wen he became world champion …It is a beautiful msg dat sikh children should be faithful to their hockey heritage ….
By Harsh singh BCA Ist year..DAV Clg…mobile number-9988593665..:)
God has blessed us with two hands in hockey ground.
Now if all of us play with bat then who will play hockey? Its highly time
To promote chak de hockey & Rakh de Bat.
Punjab which has produced so many hockey player particular sikh players
Why these days Punjab is forgetting hockey & becoming interested in cricket?
So, to come forward in hockey game All Punjabi should boycott cricket.
I just wanna say that the punjabi has the attitude to do….Do things which are impossible…..But if a punjabi thinks to do a particular thing or act or promote something…No one can lend him down…So we should bring that attiude in us(We already have this attitude) but we need to channalize this quality of punjabi’s in the promotion of Hockey(our national Game)
We have hoot bloood,We have the power to change the societies view…..So my dear brothers wake up and put some effort to promote hockey…
Hockey is a game which promotes India and particularly the punjabi’s….This is the game which could add more respect in the mind of the people of world…So promote this game to promote ur self….