GUWAHATI: Gauhati Town Club added another feather in its cap by opening a new Boxing Academy in its premises. The centre was inaugurated today in the presence of Olympic medal winner Lovlina Borgohain. It will be the sixth academy that Gauhati Town Club will run in its premises. Earlier they had opened football, cricket, chess, swimming and badminton academies.
Apart from Lovlina, the inaugural function was attended by secretary general of the Boxing Federation of India Hemanta Kalita, the secretary and vice president of the Gauhati Town Club Devajit Saikia and Shankar Lahakar respectively, former cricketer Badal Thakur, retired justice Manojit Bhuyan, Regional Head of Yes Bank Partha Pratim Goswami and the president of the Assam Cricket Association Romen Dutta.
In a brief speech at the function Lovlina said, "Gauhati Town Club has done a great job by opening this academy as it will help the promising boxers to get proper training at the very early stage of their career. I assure them to provide all possible help whenever they will require it."
Highlighting the reason behind the start of the boxing academy the secretary of the Gauhati Town Club Devajit Saikia said, "Boxing has very good potential in the State but there is not enough quality infrastructure for the young boxers. It is the main reason that we have decided to start the academy in our premises. Our plan is to make it one of the best boxing academies in the country and in this regard we will take help and guidance from our own experts like Lovlina and Hemanta Kalita."
Gauhati Town Club today handed over honorary membership of the club to both Olympic medal winner Lovlina and Kalita in the same function.
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