TATA Steel in association with Steel Plants Sports Promotion Board is organizing the 32nd Sahara Senior National Archery Championship (Recurve & Compound) for men and women from January 25th to28th 2012 at the JRD TATA Sports Complex.

Around 500 players and officials from 26 states and 10 units are participating in the championship. Sikkim, Manipur, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Andaman and Nicobar, Assam, Pondicherry, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Chandigarh, Andhra Pradesh, Chattisgarh, West Bengal, Tripura, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and host Jharkhand. The 10 Units participating are Assam Rifles, Services Sports Control Board, Ordinance Factory Sports Control Board, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, Central Reserve Police Force, Indian Railway, Border Security Force, Sashastra Seema Bal, SPSB, Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram.

At the Recurve Round, ace archers like Deepika Kumari, Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee, Tarundeep Rai etc will exhibit their talent and others like Jhanu Hansda, Manjudha Soy, CH Jignash, C Sreedhar will participate in the Compound Round.

(Sourced from www.orissadiary.com)