Gill joins hands with HI

Age Correspondent

New Delhi

June 14: The erstwhile Indian Hockey Federation and the newly-formed Hockey India on Sunday decided to bury the hatchet and joined hands to bring the state associations — both men’s and women’s — into HI’s fold.

In a general body meeting here, supercop K.P.S. Gill gave his nod to Hockey India and the two parties formed a six-member sub-committee to work out the modalities of the merger of the men’s and women’s units in the state level within 45 days time.

“We held a meeting of the IHF general house today with due notice to states and union territories. We have 28 states and five union territories under us of which majority attended the meeting.

“We’ve been having discussions with Hockey India for quite sometime and in today’s meeting the main decision we took was to set up the modalities for the merger of the state associations,” Gill said at a press meet.

“For this purpose we have formed a sub-committee. We have given the committee 45 days’ time to complete it (the merger),” he added.