Kapil Dev appointed as first Chancellor of Haryana Sports University

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BySportsCafe Desk, SportsCafe Editor

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Former India captain Kapil Dev was announced as the first Chancellor of Haryana's Sports University in Rai town of Sonepat district on Saturday. The 60-year-old Dev’s appointment to the role was announced by state Youth and Sports Minister Anil Vij via his social media account on Twitter.

Just weeks after his role in the retaining of Ravi Shastri as India head coach, Dev has been assigned his latest task. India’s World Cup-winning captain of 1983 was part of the three-member Cricket Advisory Committee that conducted the interviews of the role of the head coach of the national team. 

Meanwhile, the Sports University of Haryana became the third such university in India after Swarnim Gujarat Sports University in Gandhinagar in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University in Chennai. It will be the first full-fledged sports university in the state after the state assembly passed the bill in August this year.

“Kapil Dev will be the first Chancellor of Haryana Sports University at Rai, Sonepat,” Vij tweeted.

The Sports University of Haryana Bill of 2019 was proposed and passed by the state legislature body in August to establish and incorporate a sports university to promote sports education in the areas of sports sciences, sports technology, sports management and sports coaching, besides functioning as the training centre for select sports disciplines by adopting best international practices.

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