ranchi the state capital will have the khelo india sporting centre of excellence kisce to harness sporting talent and groom them for international tournaments including the olympics by julyend a former indian womens hockey player and sports director of jharkhand sarojini lakra on thursday said each state will have one sporting centre of excellence and this time its jharkhand the kisce will be set up in ranchi for hockey archery and athletics and is expected to become functional by julyend she added conceptualised by the union ministry of sports the kisces are aimed at overhauling existing sporting infrastructure in a particular state so that it can deliver best training to athletics of selected sporting disciplines a highperformance centre which will be aimed at enhancing the performance of players by implementing stateoftheart sports technology and medicines will also be set up lakra added as many as 139 athletes will be trained at the centre of them 54 would be hockey players 21 archers and 64 athletesin ranchi the kisces will be set up in the mega sports complex in hotwar these centres will be managed and run on a daytoday basis by the sports authority of jharkhand the process for recruiting coaches and support staff is under way experts from the sports authority of india sai inspected the mega sports complex in april and gave its nodshe saidthe union sports ministry will provide funds to remove the infrastructure gaps we have prepared an estimate for plugging infrastructure gaps such as improving the hostel facilities for the athletes lakra addedbesides the kisce all 24 districts of jharkhand will have one khelo india centre in the coming months the district sports officers have been tasked to identify the sporting disciplines which are popular in their districts and send recommendations to the sports directorate lakra added