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Present Status Of Shooting In India
Present Status Of Shooting In India

Parineeta Rai
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Shooting is an ancient traditional sport in India that has its origin in the medieval period. Can anyone tell me where it is standing in the present time?

Posted On : 3/27/2009 11:09:03 PM

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Kongkan Nag
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Parineeta, shhoting in India is standing having a contrasting scenario at the moment. While, the Indian shooters like Abhinav Bindra is winning Olympic Gold medal for India, there are several other Indian shooters who do not get the minimum required infrastructures for their practices. The game is still a game of the riches in India, as making a personal shooting range like Abhinav Bindra requires huge amount of money. The people administering shooting in India are unfortunately lacking their responsibilities and seem to be interested in fighting with each other, at the moment. They are even not daring to insult the Olympic Gold medalist Bindra to serve their narrow personal purposes. The Indian shooters are doing relatively well in the regional or sub-cintinental tournaments like SAF Games, Asian Games, etc. for the past several years. But their improper and inadquate practice is not allowing them to do well in the international championships. If somebody asks about the success of Abhinav Bindra, it should be remembered that much of his success came because of his German trainer and his straneous training schedule in Germany. However, let s hope that the administrators of shooting in India understand their responsibilities very soon and take positive stpes for providing adequate training facilities to the young and talented Indian shooters.

Posted On : 3/28/2009 5:08:35 AM

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Priyadarshini Misra [Guru]
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Shooting has been a popular sport in India since yore. Shooting was a favorite sport with the Maharajas of the former princely states of India. These Indian kings were expert with guns and often used to go on shooting sprees on horseback. The shooting expertise was an essential constituent of the royal grooming process and hence the origin of some of the leading shooters of India can be traced back to the erstwhile imperial families of India. Shooting as a sport gained importance in India when the National Rifle Association of India NRAI was set up in 1951.NRAI which is affiliated to the ISSF - International Shooting Sports Federation, is the principal administrative body promoting the sport of shooting in India. Indian shooters came into limelight for the first time after winning the first individual Olympic silver medal. The famous shooters of India who have glorified India s name are Abhinav Bindra, Dr. Karni Singh, Gagan Narang. Randhir Singh, Rajyavardhan Rathore, Jaspal Rana Anjali Bhagat and Samresh Jung. Jaspal Rana was one of the great shooters of India who bagged the gold medal at the 46th World Shooting Championship Junior Section and had a world record score of 590 points in the Centre Fire Pistol at Milan in 1994. Since then Jaspal Rana has won a plethora of accolades both in national and international events. Anjali Bhagat the female ace shooter attracted four gold medals in the individual and pairs events at the Manchester Commonwealth Games of 2002. She became the first Indian to qualify for the Olympics in the year 2004.She also received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award for 2003-2004. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won the first individual silver medal for India in the Men s Double Trap event at the Summer Olympics. He also won gold medal at the Men s Double Trap at the Asian Clay Shooting Championships, 2005 in Bangkok.

Posted On : 3/31/2009 4:42:42 AM

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