Vidyut Charkroborty & Bishal Baral
Port Blair, Dec 30: Selected Tang Soo Do team of 23 students who were letting no stones unturned to practice hard and perform in the National School Games representing Andaman and Nicobar Islands are crestfallen after they were not given permission to travel to mainland on the very last moment due to Administration hiccups. As per details the official files for this purpose is now struck somewhere in the Finance Section of Administraiton.
The Tang Soo Do players are so upset that their parents have now came to the school as well as knocking the door of administration and requesting them for letting their children participate in the event.
“My child used to get up in the morning at 03:00am to go for practice and after school he again used to go for practipating till 08:00- 08:30pm, after such efforts if the department will not let my child participate, it will hurt the sentiments of my child,” said the mother of a Tang Soo Do student during a press conference organized at ACC hotel today.
The National School Games is scheduled to start from January 02nd, 2019 and most of the teams like Table Tennis had already left the Island on ship dated 28th December, 2019 to participate in the event going to be held at Delhi.
“When the Department has given the chance for the Table Tennis and other teams to participate in the event then why the Tang Soo Do team was left, which had brought laurels in the past years in National School Games,” said the Patron of Islands’ Tang Soo Do Association, Mrs.R S Uma Bharathy.
Talking to Andaman Sheekha, Mrs.R S Uma Bharathy also said that there are students who are in class 12th and they have the last chance to show their skills in the event, what about their sentiments, if they are not given a chance?
“It’s the students of Islands school and the team was trained by Departments own staffs and selected by their own observer, then how can the department do this,” Mrs.R S Uma Bharathy added.
Mrs. Uma Bharathy along with the parents of the Tang Soo Do players demanded the administration to go till any extent and let the Tang Soo Do students represent the Islands in the ‘National School Games’.
According to Mrs. Uma Bharathy the Tang Soo Do participants are now presently under huge mental stress.
“The file related to this issue has to be approved on priority basis and Administration must arrange to send the students at NCT Delhi on 01.02.2019 by Air as ship has already sailed,” she added.
