Nepal Sports Journalists Forum

PHOTOS BY UDIPT SINGH CHHETRI

Nepal Sports Journalists Forum (NSJF) today announced that the annual Player of the Year Awards will take place on August 19, 2007 at the Birendra International Convention Center.

“We are organizing the event on August 19, 2007,” general secretary Hemanta Kafle announced in a press conference organized at the NSJF office. “We should have held the event on July 2 – the International Sports Journalists Day – but rescheduled it due to technical reasons.”

“The event this year will be bigger and better than yesteryears,” he said adding that national television station, the Nepal Television, has agreed to broadcast the event live. Kafle also added that NSJF has already formed a main organizing committee, three committees and three sub-committees for the event.

The main organizing committee and management committee is headed by President Niranjan Rajbanshi while Treasurer Himesh Bajracharya and Secretary Mahesh Acharya head the Finance and Player Selection Committee respectively.

President Rajbanshi hoped that the sports journalists of the country would help to make the event a grand success as usual. “I believe this is an event that sports journalists can take pride of, and that we all will come together to make the event better and grand success,” he added.

The POY Awards started by NSJF a decade ago and being held annually since 2004 is the most awaited sports event of the country. Last year, the event was sponsored by LG and there were five categories.

[on pic: secretary Mahesh Acharya, president Niranjan Rajbanshi, general secretary Hemanta Kafle and vice-president Dhruba Tuladhar at the press conference. Pic by Durga Dulal]