34th IndianOil Surjit Hockey Tournament from October 23
India's prestigious 34th IndianOil SERVO Surjit Hockey Tournament will be played at the Olympian Surjit Singh polytan turf Hockey Stadium, Burlton Park from October 23.
According to Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, IAS, President of the Surjit Hockey Society, the tournament is organized every year by Society to keep the name of Sardar Surjit Singh Randhawa, ex-Olympian alive, who lost his life in a fatal car accident near Jalandhar on January 7th, 1984, while fighting hard for up-liftment of the National Game of Hockey in our Country.
The tournament would be played on league-cum-knockout basis, in which 12 top ranking men teams of the country including last Year's Champion Punjab National Bank, Delhi and runners up Indian Army, New Delhi alongwith Namdhari-XI Sirsa, Bharat Petroleum, Mumbai , Oil & Natural Gas Commission (ONGC), Delhi, Army-XI, New Delhi, Indian Air Force, Delhi, Indian Navy, Mumbai, Indian Railways, Delhi, Punjab Police, Air India, Mumbai & IndianOil, Mumbai will exhibit their skills in this 9 days hockey bonanza.
In the women section of the tournament, Seven top teams including last Year's Champion Punjab-XI and Runners up team Western Railway, Mumbai will take part along with Central Railways, Mumbai, Rail Coach factory, Kapurthala, North Central railway, Allahabad, UBO Bank and Haryana-XI.
Both men Semi Finals of the tournament will be played on 30th October, 2017 where as in women section, the Semi finals will be played on 27th & 28th of October, 2017, respectively. The finals in Men & Women section will be player on 31st & 29th October, 2017, respectively.
All arrangements have been made for the LIVE telecast of both the Semi Finals & Final Match of the tournament on PTC Channels on 30th & 31st October, 2017, respectively. All India Radio, Jalandhar will also relay the 'Ball-to-Ball' running commentary of the final match.
The champion of men section will get a Cash Award of Rs. 5.00 Lakhs, sponsored by Tut Brothers of USA while Runners’ up will be pocketed a cash award of Rs. 2.5 lakhs. As in the past, the best player of the tournament will get Mohinder Singh Tut Memorial Award along with a cash prize of Rs. 25,000. This prize is sponsored by Ranbir Singh Rana Tut, Mr. Sharma added.
Under the slogan “Watch Surjit Hockey--Win ALTO Car”, this year also Surjit Hockey Society decided to award MARUTI ALTO Car along with other prizes like Motor Cycles, Refrigerators and LCDs etc. to the spectators, who will come to witness the Surjit Hockey matches. The main idea is to attract & to create more interest amongst the general public for our national game of Hockey.
-PTC News
