The Odisha government will sponsor the Indian Hockey team for 10 extra years after the modern sponsorship ends in 2023, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced.
The Odisha government will sponsor the Indian Hockey team for 10 extra years after the modern sponsorship ends in 2023, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced.
Highlights:
The government started sponsoring the countrywide hockey teams in 2018. The teams have scripted records with their extraordinary overall performance at the Tokyo Olympics, the chief minister said, handing over a award of Rs 10 lakh to every player.
However, the genuine amount of sponsorship offers are but to be revealed. In 2018, Odisha had signed a Rs a hundred crore deal with Hockey India for sponsoring the mens and womens teams for 5 years after Sahara India withdrew after getting entangled in felony issues.