BHUBANESWAR 28-Jun-2016
Sorts Journalists’ Association of Odisha (OSJA) will play host to the 39th National Convention of Sports Journalist Federation of India (SJFI) here at KIIT University campus from September 14 to 18. OSJA’s proposal to stage this prestigious event for the first time in the state was approved in the just concluded SJFI Annual General Meeting (AGM at Nagpur, Maharashtra.
According to the decisions taken in the AGM, the 40th and 41st SJFI National Conventions will take place at Indore in 2017 and Bengaluru in 2018 respectively. The AGM also approved a proposal to induct six eminent sportspersons as members of SJFI, honouring them for their sports columns. The six are: Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Geet Sethi, Michael Ferrera, Chuni Goswamy and P T Usha. In another decision, the newly formed Telangana Sports Journalists Association was given affiliation by the SJFI.
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