Ram Prakash Singh has been appointed chairman of Hockey India’s (HI) choice committee, having served the Nationwide Sports activities Federation (NSF) in a number of roles up to now.
The appointment was confirmed on April 11. The committee will come into impact on April 15. The opposite members of the physique are Balwinder Singh, Mohd Riaz, MM Somaya, Subhadra Pradhan, Sardar Singh, BP Govinda, Chinglensana Singh Kanjugam, Rajnish Mishra, VR Raghunath, Sameer Dad, Yuvraj Walmiki, Joydeep Kaur and Asunta Lakra. The committee may even have the chief coaches, scientific advisors and high-performance director of the nationwide males’s and girls’s groups.
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RP Singh changed Harbinder Singh as chairman.
“It’s an enormous honour and duty too and I want to do justice to it. We have now a strong pool of skilled and younger gamers. My first mission is to choose the correct squad for the Asian Video games as successful gold will fetch India a direct ticket to Paris Olympics,” mentioned Singh, who hails from Deoria in Uttar Pradesh.
RP Singh used to play soccer for Uttar Pradesh and received a silver in sub-junior nationwide soccer in 1980 in Kolkata. After switching to hockey in 1981, Singh received gold at sub-junior hockey nationals in 1982, additionally in Kolkata. With India, Singh received a silver on the 1990 Asian Video games in Beijing.
Earlier a member of the junior choice committee in 1998, Singh additionally served HI because the chairman of its excessive efficiency and improvement committee in 2021 earlier than turning into a member of the senior choice panel that very same yr.
Singh will start his stint with a two-day choice trial for the India group in Bengaluru on Saturday. “India is among the many prime 5 hockey taking part in international locations on the earth. It reveals how briskly we’re progressing. Our boys are taking part in in patches and that’s the one downside with our group, however I’m positive quickly they are going to overcome this downside too,” mentioned Singh, who can also be secretary of Uttar Pradesh Hockey.