Hyderabad|India|July'2010: The Tata Photon Monsoon Regatta (July 12 – 18 2010) will be the first National level championship being conducted at the newly instituted Yacht Club of Hyderabad was formally inaugurated by the Union Minister of State for Defence, Shri Palam Raju at the Marriott Hotel in the presence of Shri Vidya Sagar Rao, President The Yacht Club of Hyderabad; Shri Suheim Sheikh Commodore, The Yacht Club of Hyderabad; Mr. S Rama Krishna, Regional COO – South East, Tata Teleservices Ltd.; Shri Ty Collins, General Manager, The Marriott Hotel and Convention Centre and Shri, Sunil Kumar Gupta, Member Environment , HMDA. The Regatta is being organised at the reconditioned 40 year old Jetty at Sanjivaiah Park with the support of the HMDA under Shri. BP Acharaya, IAS.

The Tata Photon Monsoon Regatta essentially serves two causes. The first being to promote the sport of sailing in Hyderabad and the second , even more importantly to raise awareness about the quality of the waters of Hussain Sagar and to help make it healthy and clean. The theme this year is "For a Clean Hussain Sagar" and provides the ideal vehicle for a cause close to everyone’s heart in the city, to a cause on the government’s agenda but requiring greater primacy and to a cause that has global ramifications.

This will be the first Regatta ever in India to have Real time Batronics Tracking of boats by our technology partner who will embed GPS devices on board all boats. This means that in real time fans can track athletes on the Internet just like in any international Yacht Race.

-July'' 2010