Home Minister Rajnath Singh kick starts OORJA- Football Talent Hunt

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Today in New Delhi Minister of Home Affairs, Govt. of India, Rajnath Singh initiated an Under – 19 Football tournament which would be jointly organised by the CAPFs (CRPF, BSF, CISF, SSB, ITBP and Assam Rifles) in India, under the aegis of All India Police Sports Control Board. The tournament will be called the “OORJA – CAPFs Youth Under – 19 Football talent hunt Tournament – 2017 – A PM Initiative.

India is to host the seventeenth edition of the FIFA Under – 17 World Cup in October 2017.

Strengthening on the successful hosting of the event, Prime Minister has opined that this alone cannot be our final objective. The FIFA Under 17 World Cup must be a catalyst for change, the tipping point for football in the country, which can only be done by creating a mass movement around it. Our objective should be to give every child in the country an opportunity to play football. A legacy programme of the FIFA U-17 World Cup, “Mission XI Million” has been initiated as a school contact initiative, which, leading up to the U-17 World Cup in October 2017, will evolve into India’s biggest sporting activity ever, and leave a lasting legacy for the first FIFA tournament in India. Mission XI Million has been planned to take a beautiful game of football to atleast 11 million boys and girls around the country.