{"id":49634,"date":"2025-04-30T16:41:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T11:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalinsight.in\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/vedanta-groomed-kalahandi-tribal-protege-shines-at-national-archery-meet\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T16:41:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T11:11:45","slug":"vedanta-groomed-kalahandi-tribal-protege-shines-at-national-archery-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalinsight.in\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/vedanta-groomed-kalahandi-tribal-protege-shines-at-national-archery-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Vedanta-groomed Kalahandi tribal protege shines at National Archery Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\"><strong>Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], April 30:<\/strong> <\/span>Jhuli Munda, an archery prot\u00e9g\u00e9 from tribal-dominated Kalahandi district as well as propped up by Vedanta Aluminium, has won a bronze medal in the Under-17 category for Odisha at the prestigious Janjatiya Khel Mahotsav Tribal Archery Meet 2025 held recently in Andhra Pradesh\u2019s Visakhapatnam.<\/p>\n<p>While the tournament, organised by the Archery Association of India, registered the participations of around 400 youth talents from the tribal communities from across the country, Jhuli\u2019s remarkable achievement has carved a niche of immense pride and prestige for the region.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Jhuli has been undergoing professional training under the aegis of Vedanta Aluminium\u2019s community sports programme for the past three years. Her record includes one national representation, four state-level representations and four state medals.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-68224 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalinsight.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PNN1200x675-3004-8.jpg\" alt=\"Vedanta\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalinsight.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PNN1200x675-3004-8.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pnn.digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PNN1200x675-3004-8-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pnn.digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PNN1200x675-3004-8-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pnn.digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PNN1200x675-3004-8-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pnn.digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PNN1200x675-3004-8-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pnn.digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PNN1200x675-3004-8-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">In his elated reactions, Vedanta Aluminium\u2019s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mr Rajiv Kumar said, \u201cJhuli\u2019s remarkable achievement is a testament to the incredible talent that exists within our communities. We are enabling such young talents to shine on national platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVedanta Aluminium is committed in its mission to foster sustainable development in Kalahandi, creating avenues for community members, especially the youths, to excel in diverse fields, including sports,\u201d averred the CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Need to be mentioned here that, the Vedanta Sports Training Initiative at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district of Odisha has been committed to nurturing sporting talents from underserved communities since its inception in 2018. The programme offers comprehensive coaching in archery, karate and other sports, with access to quality training equipment, uniforms, and expert-led coaching camps. Till date, more than 100 young archers have been trained under the programme with more than 40 medals bagged both at the state and national championships last year alone.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you have any objection to this press release content, kindly contact pr.error.rectification@gmail.com to notify us. We will respond and rectify the situation in the next 24 hours.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], April 30: Jhuli Munda, an archery prot\u00e9g\u00e9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[1313],"class_list":["post-49634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalinsight.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalinsight.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalinsight.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalinsight.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalinsight.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalinsight.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalinsight.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalinsight.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalinsight.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalinsight.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}