After a good start with the inaugural girls’ programme of 30 trainee cadets capacity, the Naval Tata Hockey Academy Odisha (NTHAO), the State’s Hockey High Performance Centre (HPC) that was launched a year ago at the Kalinga Stadium here, is all set to induct 30 boys in the coming months.
This is expected to strengthen its programme across its talent pathway to bridge the gap between grassroots to an elite HPC and provide more opportunities to young and promising hockey players from the State and country who can then pursue their dream sport, excel at their game and bring laurels for the nation.
“The HPC has an ambitious programme to take Hockey skills from its existing 10 grassroots centres and three Regional Development Centres (Bhubaneswar, Panposh and Sundargarh) to elite level over the next 3-5 years. The boys’ programme will have 30 resident cadets from U-17,” said Sports Minister Tusharkanti Behera.
