India's participation in international Sports Events

Exchange of Sports teams between India and Foreign Countries during 1977-78

(a) The Indian teams that participated in sports events abroad included the following :

(i) Cricket team visited Australia during October, 1977 to February, 1978 and played a number of matches including 5 test matches.

(ii) Football team participated in the tournament at Kabul in connection with the Afghan Republic Day Celebrations in July, 1977.

(iii) Football team visited Bangkok to participate in the 10th Kings Cup Football tournament in October- November, 1977;

(iv) Football team visited Bangladesh to Participate in the Aga Khan Gold Cup Tournament during December, 1977- January, 1978;

(v) Football team participated in the 7th President Cup Football Tournament held at Seoul (South Korea) in September, 1977.

(vi) The Indian Airlines Hockey team visited the U.S.A. and Argentina in October, 1977 to play in John F. Kennedy Memorial Hockey Championship in October, 1977 in New York and friendly matches at Buenos Aires (Argentina).

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(vii) National Hockey team visited Pakistan in February, 1978 to play two test matches at Karachi and Lahore against Pakistan National Hockey team as a part of training programme for World Cup Hockey Tournament to be held at Buenos Aires (Argentina) in March-April, 1978.

(viii) S/Shri M. Ferreira and S. Alem of India participated in the World Billiards Championship 1977, held at Melbourne in November, 1977. Mr. Ferreira won the World Championship;

(ix) An Indian Chess team participated in the 2nd Asian Chess Championship held in Newzealand in November, 1977.

(x) The Gymnastics Federation of India sent a three member team to the USSR in March-April, 1977.

(xi) Shri Shiv Nath went to Japan to participate in 12th Fukoka International Open Marathon Championship (Athletics) held on 4.12.1977 at Fukoka City;

(xii) An Indian Badminton team participated in the first World Badminton Championship held at Malmo (Sweden) in May, 1977;

(xiii) An Indian Boxing team participated in the 8th Asian Boxing Championship held at Jakarta in October, 1977;

(xiv) An Indian Table Tennis team participated in the 8th All Nigeria Open Table Tennis Championship held in Lagos in July, 1977;

(xv) An Indian Table Tennis Team participated in the 2nd Pahlvi Cup International Table Tennis Championship held at Tehran in November, 1977;

(xvi) An Indian Youth Basketball team participated in 9th ABC Youth Championship held at Kuala Lampur in November-December, 1977;

(xvii) An Indian team participated in the 13 nation Far Fast Bridge Championship held at Manila in November, 1977 and won the International Bridge title;

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(xviii) Indian Golf Teams (Men) visited Sri Lanka, Singapore, Kenya for playing friendly matches there.

(xix) Indian Golf Teams (Ladies) visited Kenya, Sri Lanka to play friendly matches there;

(xx) Five Indian athletics were included in the 46 mem- ber Asian team for the 1st World Athletic Meet held at Dussaldorf (FRG) in September, 1977.

(b) The foreign teams that participated in sports events held in India included the following :

(i) English School Boys Cricket Association team play- ed in Moin-Ud-Doula Gold Cup Tournament at Hyderabad in December, 1977;

(ii) New York Cosmos Football team visited India and played a match against Mohan Bagan at Calcutta in September, 1977;

(iii) Tranggam State XI, Malaysia and Spartak USSR teams visited India in September-October, 1977 to participate in DCM Tournaments held at New Delhi.

(iv) British and Spanish Hockey teams visited India to participate in Jawaharlal Nehru Hockey Tournament held at New Delhi in November, 1977;

(v) Afghan and German Boys teams visited India in November, 1977 and participated in the Junior Jawaharlal Nehru Hockey Tournament held at New Delhi;

(vi) The Dutch Hockey team (Men) visited India during December, 1977 at the invitation of Indian Hockey Federation to play friendly matches at Bombay, Nagpur, Delhi, Jullundur, Gwalior, Madras and Bangalore;

(vii) The Pakistan National Hockey Team visited India during February, 1978, to play two test matches at Bombay and Bangalore against the Indian National team;

(viii) The 8th Asian School International Football Championship was organised by the School Games Fede- ration of India at Agra during December, 1977 in

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which school teams from a number of foreign countries participated;

(ix) A Soviet Gymnastics team visited India from 30.9.77 to 15.10.1977 and gave its performances at Patiala, Chandigarh, New Delhi, Calcutta and Agartala;

(x) The fifth Grand Prix Tennis Championship was held at Bombay in November-December, 1977 in which 32 foreign participants took part;

(xi) Davis Cup 1978 East Zone Matches were held at Coimbatore in December, 1977, and New Delhi in January, 1978;

(xii) Badminton Association of India held International tournaments at Bombay, Amritsar, Lucknow and Calcutta in October, November, 1977 in which teams from Japan, Thailand and China participated;

(xiii) England Women's National Basketball team visited Delhi in August, 1977 for playing a friendly match;

(xiv) A Malaysian Table Tennis team visited India in January, 1978 to play friendly matches at Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta and some towns of U.P.;

(xv) An American Polo team visited India in January, 1978 to play friendly matches at Calcutta;

(xvi) A Canadian Polo team visited India in February, 1978 on the invitation of Rajasthan Polo team to play matches at Jaipur (Rajasthan).

(xvii) Teams from Hong Kong, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Burma and Indonesia visited India to participate in Yachting Regatta organised by Yachting Association of India, at Goa in December, 1977.

(xviii) Golf Teams from Pakistan, Kenya and Sri Lanka, visited India to play friendly matches.

Seminar on Sports Organisation and Administration for Asian Countries

On the invitation of the Government of Federal Republic of Germany a two-member delegation consisting of Shri A. S. Talwar, Deputy Secretary (Physical Education and Sports) in the

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Ministry of Education and Social Welfare, and Dr. M. Robson, Principal, Lakshmibai National College of Physical Education, Gwalior, attended the Seminar on Sports Organisation and Administration for Asian Countries held at Frankfurt from September 4 to 30, 1977.

Interim Inter-Government Committee on Physical Education and Sports

As a follow up of the First International Conference of Ministers and Senior Officials Responsible for Physical Education and Sports in the Education of the Youth, the UNESCO set up a 30-Member Interim Intergovernmental Committee on Physical Education and Sports with India as one of its Vice Chairman The First meeting of the Committee was held at Paris from July 4 to July, 13, 1977 and India was represented by Shri S. N. Pandita, Joint Secretary (Physical Education and Sports) in the Ministry of Education and Social Welfare. India again figured among the eight countries elected to form a sub-group, of the Committee for preparing a draft International Charter on Physical Education and Sports for the Committee.

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