By D N Singh
In any format of the game or sports, a player always looks up for a place in the national or international sphere. Simultaneously, the efforts must be behind to nurture such aspirants from the grass root and see them racing ahead on their respective tracks to success.
Among many of the sports, besides the high-end ones like cricket, hockey and football and so on, the need for sports those have recently come out of the hibernation of diminishing, Archery has somehow made it to the focus. But, still, there is lacking.
Odisha, more known for its primitive tribe those who are powered with the congenital talent in Archery, where it is a part of life. A tribal youth can train his bow and aim at a target of more than 100 mtrs .
Odisha with a tribal population of over 28 percent of its entire population has proved time and again that the raw power has always the inherent strength to surprise all. Be it Dilip Tirkey, Lazrus Barla, Prabodh Tirkey, Sunita Lakra, Ignes Tirkey and so on and on, there is a long list.
Here is a case where a tribal youth now aims his way to Olympics 2020. Ranjit Naik, an ace archer and a student of the Bhubaneswar based Kalinga Institute Of Social Science has qualified for the camp for Archery in Jamshedpur.
It is not that, Ranjit has been catapulted as an archer but, he has already exhibited his skill throughout last few years at several occasions of national and international competitions, winning medals that has left his mentors counting.
A Bhuyia tribal boy from the Mayurbhanj district, Ranjit rose to fame as an international archer winning medals one after the other from 2013 in several national and international championships and never looked back. Now Ranjit is ready to knock at the doors of the Tokyo Olympics 2020.
The KISS has in its armory an array of archers in line getting groomed for bigger claims in the days to come. There are over 15 talents right now who are being readied by the trainers for the big events.
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