da bwin： Young Orissa opener Shiv Sundar Das has not only impressed cricketfans in the country but also his employers National Aluminium Companywhich has offered him promotion to the executive rank
Staff and Agencies14-Jun-2001* Employers offer Das executive postYoung Orissa opener Shiv Sundar Das has not only impressed cricketfans in the country but also his employers National Aluminium Companywhich has offered him promotion to the executive rank. Das, who baggedthe man of the match award for his knocks of 30 and 82 not out in thefirst Test at Bulawayo, has enhanced his job prospects over the lastfew days with the Steel Authority of India (SAIL) also offering him anexecutive position.”A decision to promote him to an executive position will be taken intwo to three days. We can tell the exact post only after that,” aNALCO spokesman said in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday. Das is currentlyworking as a supervisor, a non-executive post, in the central sectorNALCO which has also given employment to another Orissa cricketerDebasish Mohanty. Medium pacer Mohanty, the first Orissa cricketer tobreak into the national scene, is currently working as a juniormanager, a post which falls in the executive category.The Union Minister of State for Steel, Braja Kishore Tripathy, hadearlier offered to accommodate Das in an executive position in SAIL. Apress release issued from the Minister’s office quoted Tripathy assaying that Das had risen to represent the country from a state whichdid not have much of a sporting infrastructure through his talent andperseverance. He has become a source of inspiration for the youth ofOrissa, it said.* Appeal of Gayatri Arts disposed of, BCCI to file affidavitThe Mumbai High Court on Wednesday directed the Board of Control forCricket in India to file an affidavit by June 18 in reply to apetition challenging the award of contract to International ManagementGroup (IMG)-Transworld International (TWI) for clothing sponsorship ininternational matches for the next three years from July 1.Refusing to stay the contract awarded to IMG and its subsidiary TWI, abench comprising Justice BN Srikrishna and Justice Nishita Mhatredirected the appellant Sham Dhumatkar, proprietor of Gayatri Arts, tomove a notice of motion before Justice DK Deshmukh, who had in anearlier order also refused to stay the award of contract by the BCCI.However, the division bench directed the single judge to dispose ofthe notice of motion before July 1 when the new contract would comeinto force.Gayatri Arts had challenged the BCCI decision to award a contract toIMG-TWI by way of a petition in the High Court. The company claimedthat it had made the highest bid of Rs 90 crores through a legaltender advertised by BCCI in a newspaper and yet the contract wasawarded to IMG-TWI combine.* Police seek to declare Prabhakar a `proclaimed offender’The Uttaranchal police will file an application in a city court nextweek praying that former Test cricketer Manoj Prabhakar, accused ofmisappropriating public funds in a finance company and evading arrestbe declared as a “proclaimed offender”The Uttaranchal Director-General of police, Ashok Kant Sharan told PTIin Dehra Dun that efforts were made by the state police to arrest theaccused on a non-bailable warrant issued by the Haldwani Court lastmonth. He has since been evading arrest, Saran said adding Delhi andRajasthan police had earlier failed to locate him.The DGP said the application under section 82 of the CRPC will befiled in the Haldwani court seeking to declare Prabhakar as aproclaimed offender. According to the normal judicial procedure if theformer cricketer is not arrested or he does not appear before thecourt within one month of his being declared as ‘proclaimed offender’,then the court has the power to declare him as ‘absconder’ undersection 83 of CRPC and also to announce a cash reward for his arrest.