This website www.Kalingalancers.Com has been launched with an aim to promote and develop hockey activities in the state and link to social media like twitter and facebook.
It also provides for online booking of the tickets.
Through the website any person can avail all the details of the matches, sponsorship, list of players with their respective expertise.
To a query, state Sports and Youth Affairs Secretary Saswat Mishra said, "For the first time in India, the Government of Odisha has taken initiative to launch a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) under the name Odisha Sports Development and Promotion Company and has acquired the sixth Franchise of Hockey India League."
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In the second edition of the Hockey India League, five matches will be played here in the newly built Kalinga Stadium from January 28 to February 14, 2014.
V V S N Rao, Convener of the Advisory Committee of SPV, said that the franchise has been acquired by government of Odisha at an estimated cost of Rs 12 crore.
Kalinga Lancers team consists of 14 Indian players and 10 international players among whom four are from Odisha.
They have already started practicing in Kalinga Stadium from today. The foreign players are scheduled to arrive here on January 20.
The first match will be played here on January 28 and subsequent matches, second at Delhi on January 30, third, fourth, eighth and ninth match at Bhubaneswar on 1st and 2nd, 13th and 14th February.
Other matches will be played at Mohali, Ranchi and Mumbai.
The league match will be played on February 16 at Mumbai. The semifinal and final have been scheduled on 22nd and 23rd February in Ranchi.