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Kathmandu,Monday May 01, 2000 Baishakh 19, 2057.
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NBA to organise boxing tournament
By a Post Reporter
KATHMANDU, April 30 - Nepal Boxing Association
(NBA) will be organising an open boxing tournament at Tripureshwor Covered Hall from May
17-21, it was stated in a NBA press release received here Sunday.
Around 100 boxers representing different parts of
the country is expected to participate in the first boxing tournament, which is being held
after the recent reformation of NBA.
Following the association’s meeting held today
under the chairmanship of its president, Bishnu Gopal Shrestha, it has also been decided
to form 11 different committees for the successful conduction of the tournament.
According to the press release, a finance
collection committee formed under the main tournament organising committee constitutes of
Shyam Bahadur Gurung as the coordinator, Raju Babu Shrestha, Uttam Man Ranjit, Uddav
Shamsher Thapa (asst-coordinators) and Sanjeev Vaidya, Binod Pant, Dinesh Ghimire, Pushkar
Dhoj Shahi, Om Maskey, Prachanda Sharma and Bijay Dangol as the members.
The technical committee, which will be headed by
the association’s vice-president, Laxman Shamsher Thapa, includes Manju Jung Thapa,
Suresh Singh Ale, Madan Gurung while the disciplinary committee has Sanendra Pandey as the
coordinator and Ganesh Bhattarai as member.
Association’s secretary-general, Tirtha Ratna
Mali, has been the coordinator for the selection committee with Laxman Shamsher Thapa,
Manju Jung Thapa, Ganesh Bhattarai, Suresh Singh Ale, Madan Gurung, Pushkar Dhoj Shahi, Om
Maskey, Prachanda Sharma, Vidya Marsani, Anup Lama and Bijay Dangol as its members.
The medical committee constitutes of Dr Ajay Rana
and Dr Saroj Krishna Shrestha.
Similarly, finance, publicity, security,
transportation and ceremony committees have also been established in preparation of the
tournament.
Following the tournament, players will be selected
for three teams-A,B,C. The exact number of players, who will be selected through the
tournament is however, not known.
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