Category: Governance
Sports Governance Bill must encompass sports organisations beyond NSFs and their affiliates
There has been sharper and greater focus on the Draft National Sports Governance Bill 2024 than on the Draft National Sports Policy 2024. Both documents have been shared with the…
University Sports Calendar: Staring at a largely blank schedule
We envy Stanford University for being home to 59 athletes from 14 countries who competed in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. We envy it more when we discover that as…
National Sports Policy: A Timeline
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has shared a Draft National Sports Policy 2024 on its website and invited comments from various stakeholders. While there will be many who…
India needs to weigh in with research and policy for weight-category sport
Disclaimer: This piece is not a reflection of what happened or what did not happen in Paris 2024 Olympic Games where Vinesh Phogat was disqualified for not making weight on…
Delhi HC asks EFI why it does not admit more State Associations as members
Justice Sanjeev Narula of the High Court of Delhi on Monday caught the Equestrian Federation of India (EFI) counsel Jayant Mehta off guard by asking him why it would not…
IOA officials bizarrely question SOM nominations and their own election to seats of power
The charges being traded in the corridors of power in the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), through letters and in the media are best resolved across the table. The disputes and…
National Sports Code & Sports Governance in India
The Sports & Society Accelerator and Open Takshashila recently organised a five-week online introductory course on India’s Sports Ecosystem, Building a Sporting Nation. I was privileged that Mr. Nandan Kamath…
Dropped from Olympic team, India entered Hockey star in Steeplechase
Some stories from the distant past have a way of bobbing up. And here is a delightful one that surfaced recently. It features one of India’s most respected names from…
Will a meeting of the reinstated EFI Executive Committee be convened before Paris 2024?
By reinstating the entire Executive Committee of the Equestrian Federation of India (EFI) as an interim measure, the Division Bench of the High Court of Delhi comprising Acting Chief Justice…
Delhi HC places EFI under ad hoc committee after officials’ futile bid to extend stay in office
Justice (retd.) Najmi Waziri has been presented with the chance to put into practice what he always held as sacrosanct when, as Judge of the Delhi High Court, he adjudicated…
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