FULL NAME: Tapan Kumar Swain
GENDER: Male
BORN: May 5, 1969
FAMILY: Mother, wife, one son and one daughter.
HOME ADDRESS: At- Haladi gadia, Po- Korai, Dist- Jajpur, Odisha, India.
PRESENT ADDRES: B-15, Industrial Estate, Rasulgarh, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
PROFESSION: Sports journalist
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Worked for The Bartaman Samachar & The Kalinga Mail for 4 years. Presently working for The Dharitri since 2001.
MOBILE: 9437448986
E-MAIL: tapanswain09@gmail.com
HOBBY: Reading and writing.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
*    Matric from Korai High School, Korai, Jajpur.
*    Plus-Two Arts from Pranakrusna College, Baitrani Road.
*    Plus-Three from Vyasanagar College, Jajpur Road.
*    Post Graduation in Odia from Revenshaw University in Modern poetry special.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
* As a reporter covered several local, national and international sports events including Ranji Trophy, All-India Railway Athletics meet, India‘s one-day international cricket matches against England, New Zealand, West Indies, Sri Lanka; Inter-zonal athletics meet, Premier Hockey Leage (Hydrabad), Indian Premier League, All-India Railway Vollyball Tournament, Federation Cup Football Tournament, I-League Football Tournament, ICC Women`s World Cup, FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour (Kolkata), Hockey India League etc during the past 17 years.
*     Besides reporting, he contributed hundreds special stories, profiles and interview pieces.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
*     Elected as vice-president of Odisha Sports Journalists Association (OSJA) for a two-year term on 21 March 2024.
*     He was conferred with the Biju Patnaik Sports Award for Outstanding Sports Journalist for the Year for 2010 by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in Bhubaneswar on August 29, 2014. The award carried a cheque of Rs 30,000.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 6 September 2010
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 3 May 2024