By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: In a bid to nurture young cricket talents, MGM Minerals Ltd run MGM School of Sports on Tuesday signed a MoU with Coaching Beyond, cricket coaching institutions, founded by Coach Ravi Shastri, B Arun and R. Sridhar, former Team India coaches.
The agreement was signed between Pankaj Lochan Mohanty, CMD, MGM Minerals Ltd and Ravi Shastri, Founder of Coaching Beyond here at a special event. MGM Minerals Wholetime Director Siddhartha Mohanty also graced the occasion.
Coaching Beyond will be the knowledge and technical partner for this venture of MGM School of Sports to facilitate and execute high quality coaching programs with the aim to bring the world’s best practices to the heart of Odisha. MGM School of Sports has also roped in S.L. Venkatapathy Raju, former Indian test cricketer as their consultant coach for this prestigious project.
MGM Group has set up MGM School of Sports, Centre of Excellence for Cricket at Kapursingh, Gurudijhatia in Athagarh Subdivision of Cuttack District, 30 kms from Bhubaneswar.
This School has been made to fulfil the vision of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s vision to make the State as Sports hub. The total project cost is around Rs 40 Crore. The newly inaugurated Center of Excellence for Cricket was designed to accommodate 100 players for cricket and other sports apart from other supporting staffs. In fact priorities were being given to players from Odisha. The land area for the project is 30 Acres.
