GENERAL MANAGER FELICITATED SPORTS PERSONS OF EASTERN RAILWAY FOR THEIR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2022-23
Kolkata, April 25, 2023
Shri Arun Arora, General Manager, Eastern Railway and Chief Patron/Eastern Railway Sports Association (ERSA) felicitated outstanding sports persons of Eastern Railway for their achievements in 2022-23 in a programme organised at Eastern Railway Headquarters, Fairlie Place, today (25.04.2023).
Shri Arun Arora, General Manager, Eastern Railway, apart from providing state-of-the-art facilities for the sports personnel of Eastern Railway has always tried for providing an appropriate forum for recognition of their achievements. Today’s felicitation programme is one such forum provided by the General Manager to recognize the achievements of the Eastern Railway’s sports person to motivate them to continue their endeavour to excel forever in the sports arena.
It may be noted that apart from several other steps, Shri Arun Arora, General Manager arranged for the development of facilities like a hostel, sports equipment, etc. at Majherhat sports complex, the opening of the state-of-the-art indoor stadium at Gholeshapur, Behala, and arrangements of coaching camps for cricket, basketball, table-tennis, etc. to identify and nurture blooming sports personalities and extract their full potential.
In today’s felicitation event, Shri Arun Arora, General Manager, Eastern Railway has felicitated prominent ER sports personalities viz. Md. Ali Qamar, Dronacharya Awardee in 2022-23, and 6 gold medalists namely Sonia Baishya, Pronoti Das, Tanushree Sarkar, Sukhminder Singh, Praveena, and Arjun Das. Besides, individual silver medalists and bronze medalists from Eastern Railway in their different sports fields were also felicitated. The Eastern Railway Water Polo (Men) team, Eastern Railway Football (Men) team, Eastern Railway Athletics (Women) team, Eastern Railway Gymnastics (Men) team & Eastern Railway Cue (Men) team were also felicitated by General Manager for winning medals in different National & International Sports Events.
Shri A.K. Dubey, Principal Chief Engineer, and other principal officers of Eastern Railway were also present on the occasion.
