IOA, NSF Meeting PM to Discuss New Regulations on Tenures
Accompanied with a delegation of National Sports Federation, officials of Indian Olympic Association are meeting the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Parliament today for discussing that the issue of new guidelines which seek to limit tenures of sports administrators, said media reports.
IOA Secretary General Randhir Singh and chiefs of Sports Federation entered the premises of the Parliament and were later joined by IOA President Suresh Kalmadi, said reports.
“We have come to discuss the issue with the Prime Minister,” Randhir Singh was quoted as saying.
The IOA and the NSFs, which describe the government move as interference in their affairs, had yesterday warned that the attempts to erode their autonomy may invite international ban on India, reports said.
New regulations bar presidents of sports body from occupying the top posts for more than 12 years, with or without break, while secretaries and treasurers can serve eight years at a stretch and can seek a re-election only after a four-year gap.
The regulations thus seek to end the more than decade-old reign of Suresh Kalmadi (IOA), VK Malhotra (archery), Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa (cycling), VK Verma (badminton), Captain Satish K Sharma (aero club), B S Adityan (volleyball) and Jagdish Tytler (judo).
(Based on internet reports)
