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Odisha Olympic Association today announced to give affiliation to 17 new districts sports associations of the state. A decision in this context was taken in the council meeting of the apex spots body of the state here at Barabati Stadium, in the presence of its president Samir Dey and general secretary Asirbad Behera.
The meeting also decided to conduct the election of office-bearers of OOA for a four-year term on September 30. According to a notification, a total of 78 representatives of 22 affiliated state sports bodies, one institution, 14 district sports associations and four ex-officio members would cast their votes to elect a total of 22 office-bearers from among themselves.
The 22 posts include one president, six vice-presidents (at least two from outside Cuttack), one general secretary, two joint-secretaries, one treasurer and 11 council members (at least four from outside Cuttack).
Nominations for elections shall be filed on or before September 15. Scrutiny of nomination papers shall take place on September 17, while both withdrawal of nominations and declaration of valid candidates list shall take place shall be done on September 19. M A Alam and S R Parija were appointed as election officer and scrutiny committee members.
A surplus budget of around Rs 2,56,087 (income Rs 1,58,67,126, expenditure Rs 1,56,11,039) for the year 2011-12 was approved and a surplus budget of around Rs 8,47,470 (income Rs 1,43,41,470, expenditure Rs 1,34,94,000) for the year 2012-13 was passed in the meeting.
List of valid members for Annual General Meeting 2012:
1. Odisha Archery Association (Sreedhar Das, Ganeswar Sethi)
2. Odisha Athletic Association (Adhip Das, Pratima Mishra)
3. Odisha State Badminton Association (Pradip Mohanty, Kartik Ch Das)
4. Odisha Amateur Boxing Association (Anil Kumar Bohidar, Bijay Chandra Dash)
5. Odisha Basketball Association (KV Singh Deo, Ashok Kumar Sahu)
6. Odisha Cycling Association (Bijay Kumar Rout, Soumya PrakashPatnaik)
7. Football Association of Odisha (Sanjay Behera, Abhijit Pal)
8. Odisha Gymnastic Association (Samir Dey, Ashok Sahoo)
9. Odisha State Handball Association (Ramesh Prusty, Biren Behera)
10. Odisha State Judo Association (Gitanjali Panda, Name of 2nd member not received)
11. Odisha Kabaddi Association (Sarat Kumar Sahoo, Ajay Kumar Behera)
12. Odisha Kho-kho Association (Pradyumna Mishra, Rusi Nath Sahu)
13. Odisha Association for Rowing & Sculling (Binod Dash, Name of 2nd member not received)
14. Odisha Swimming Association (Pitamber Jena, Salegram Khuntia)
15. Odisha State Table Tennis Association (Rabindra Kumar Parida, Nihar Ranjan Mishra)
16. Odisha Tennis Association (No name received)
17. Odisha Taekwondo Association (Gopal Chandra Roy, Name of 2nd member not received)
18. Odisha Triathlon Association (Nilamber Jena, Name of 2nd member not received)
19. Odisha Volleyball Association (Pradeep Kumar Mohanty, Bhabani Sankar Panda)
20. Odisha Weight Lifting Association (Narayan Sahu, Chakradhar Behera)
21. Odisha Wrestling Association (Ramachandra Padhi, Binod Ch Das)
22. Hockey Odisha (Pratap Satpathy, Pranab Kihor Pattnaik)
23. R.S.C.B. (Rajani Kanta Mohanty, Kamadeba Nayak)
24. Balasore District Athletic Association (Prasant Kumar Acharya, Santosh Das)
25. Bhubaneswar Athletic Association (Lalatendu Patnaik, Manoranjan Mohanty)
26. Bolangir District Athletic Association (Ramakanta Seth, Hari Narayan Pujari)
27. Cuttack District Athletic Association (Asirbad Behera, MA Alam)
28. Dhenkanal District Athletic Association (Shyamakanta Mishra, Nalini Kumar Das)
29. Ganjam District Athletic Association (Asok Kumar Sahu, Sarat Ch Mohapatra)
30. Kalahandi District Athletic Association (Jagmohan Pattnaik, Pankaj Patnaik)
31. Keonjhar District Athletic Association (Janardan Dash, Bipin Dash)
32. Koraput District Athletic Association (Anup Patra, Rabi Nayak)
33. Mayurbhanj District Athletic Association (No name received)
34. Phulabani District Athletic Association (Sibaprasad Tripathy, Kamalakanta Pandey)
35. Puri (No name received)
36. Sambalpur District Athletic Association (Dulal Chandra Pradhan, Md Sabbir Ahmed)
37. Sundargarh District Athletic Association (Anand Chandra Naik, Jaydev Patra)
38. Ex-officio members: DGP (Bijya Prakash Baboo), DPI, Higher Education (Dr S R Parija), Odisha Council of Sports (Barija Ranjan Mohanty), Utkal University (Prof Jayanta Kumar Parida).