Category: Governance
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…
Teenager and coach convince Delhi HC to make EFI grant rule exemption till Junior National
Gulab Singh, 60, and his 19-year-old trainee Abdullah Arman Imdad combined to win a battle against the Equestrian Federation of India (EFI) after the young rider from Assam sought the…
EFI leaves Major and Dafedar idling in France, eroding their Asian Games dreams
Two athletes, both from the Indian Army, are stuck in a foreign land, unable to train because of lack of funding from their own National Sports Federation. There are no…
French Coach accuses EFI officials of ‘finishing’ Eventing team ahead of Asian Games
Equestrian Coach Rodolphe Scherer has accused Equestrian Federation of India officials of ‘finishing’ the Indian Eventing team ahead of the Asian Games after two riders, Ashish Malik and Rakesh Kumar,…