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Volleyball nationals from today

Sports Reporter
The final rounds of the 15th national mens and ninth na tlonal women's volleyball championships begin in the city today under the aegis of the Bangladesh Volleyball Federation.
Jute Minister Brig (retd) M Hannan Shah will inaugurate the meets at 4.30 this after noon at the Outer Stadium volk-yball court
The six-day meets, being
Ing sponsored by the Bangladesh General Insurance Company Limited who are forking out just over Taka one lakh twenty five thousand out of the TK 2.08 lakh needed for the conduct of the finals. The federation Is paying for the remaining portion of the expenses.
Fourteen teams, including defending champions Bangladesh Army will be vying for the honour* In the men's competition The other teams are Tangall. Fartdpur, Rajshahi. Comllla. Dlnajpur. Pabna. Je-ssore and host* Dhaka DSA. Bangladesh Air Force. Bang ladesh Navy. Bangladesh Rifles, the Power Development Board and Rajahahl University Army had won the title in 1990 beating Navy, there was no national championship last year
Divided Into four group*, the teams will piny on a league basis with the four group champions qualifying for the scmiflruiln
While most of the teams had reached the capital by yes terday. the organiser* were still expecting three teams, namely. Tangall. Dinajpur and Rajshahi University sometime today. However. Rajahahl University may not turn up at all since the authorities had closed the university tine die last April 17. According to Volleyball Federation officials. no one could be reached at the university for confirmation of the team » participation
Ihere arc ten teams in the women s section of the compe Ullon. although the organisers Insisted at « press conference yesterday afternoon that eleven teams would be taking part
Khulna are the defending champions while the other
team. In the fray are Narayanganj, Rajbart, China gong. Comllla. Rangpur. Bugra. and Jeworv DSA. BangLidcsh Ansar, and Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation
Matches will be held at the Volleyball Stadium In the afternoon but In case of In-clement weather games may be shifted to the adjacent wooden floor gym
The players of the participating teams are putting up at various city hotels and the National Sport* Council hostel
The preliminary league matches will be be»t-of three sets contests with the szmift ruds and the finals being de cided on the basis of best of
five *et.
The organiKrs. who he ld a pres, conference yesterday at the NSC. hope to be able to stage the final matches of both the men’, and women’s championship, on May 8. .object to the weather over the next few day..
M A Samad. Chairman of BGIC handed aver a cheque for Taka 1 25 lakh to Maj General Mahbubur Rahman, chief of the BVF at the pres, conference Gholam Quddus Chowdhury, general secretary of the BVF. also addressed the
RAIKARI S TITLE
Meanwhile. Raj be ri DSA annexed the Dhaka Division
women’, volleyball title beating Narayanganj I>SA In the final held yeaterday at the Dhan-monal Women* Sport. Complex.
Seventeen team, took part In the meet.
Stale Mlnl.lcr for Sport. Sadcq Ho.Mln Khoka gave away the prize, as chief guest