MCT hoping to sign on hockey

BANGALORE: The Mittal Champions Trust, which supports and trains top Indian athletes in various disciplines, has long had hockey in its plans.

Unfortunately for MCT, they’ve been unable to take their plans forward as Indian hockey is in a state of limbo with no national federation to coordinate with.

Manisha Malhotra, CEO MCT, told TOI, “In a team sport you have to work with the national federation. In hockey, right now, they have an ad hoc committee (appointed by the IOA), but that could change in the next six months.

If a new set of people take over they may not want to work with us just because we were working
with the old team.” Hockey has been on the MCT shortlist for the last six months, but outside of their own planning and brainstorming, Mittal hasn’t been able to take it forward.

Manisha reckons that they should be able to put their plans to work in the next couple of months.