Jamshedpur, Jan. 6: Sports Department of Tata Steel had conducted the Inter Divisional Basketball Championship from 4th to 6th January 2016 at JRD Tata Sports Complex. This was the Ninth event of Inter Divisional Championship of 2015 – 2016 season.
Out of 11 units, 9 units had participated in it. The units included- West Bokaro, Shared Services, FAMD, CSI, Long Product, Flat Product, General Offices, OMQ, and KPO. Mines Division won the Championship defeating West Bokaro by 32-30 for first time in ID Basketball.
For 3rd place match- General Offices beat Flat Products by 26 – 20 points. Bhawesh Mahato of Mines Division was awarded the Best Player of the tournament.
Santosh Kumar Sinha, Head, Finishing & Despatch (CRM) was the Chief Guest in the final and distributed the prizes to the winners. Referees were Ram Kumar, Sajjad, Paramjit Singh, Jamshed, Yogesh Pandey, Subodh qualified umpires of Basketball conducted the entire matches of the above championships.
Unit Reresentatives, Gautam Acharjee, J Behera, Tilak Ram, T V S Rao, Dukhiya Majhi, R R Singh, Hassan Imam, R K Mishra and Mahesh Jha Avinash Kumar, Manager Sports conducted the entire championship and was ably supported by Firoze khan, Ms. Renu Bhaduriya, Ms. Punam Kumari, Ajit Singh, Tejindera Singh and Ravi Barua and his staffs team.