Sports Authority of India (SAI) has formed a committee to prepare a Standard Operating Procedure to resume training in all SAI Centres in all sporting disciplines after the lockdown is lifted. All training had been suspended across SAI Centres in view of the on-going Corona pandemic.
The committee will prepare a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the phased resumption of training across sporting disciplines at all its centres.
The six-member panel will be headed by Rohit Bharadwaj SAI secretary. The members of the committee are: CEO Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) Rajesh Rajagopalan, Executive Director (Operations) SS Roy, SS Sarla, Col BK Nayak and Assistant Director TOPS Sachin K as members.
The committee will recommend the Standard Operating Procedures. It will describe several protocols and preventive measures to be observed by all stakeholders, including trainees, coaches, technical and non-technical support staff, NSFs, administrators, mess and hostel staff, and visitors, once training resumes.
The SOPs will also give detailed guidelines to be followed on entry norms, sanitization guidelines, precautions to be taken in common areas, and by athletes while travelling to and from the centre.
Also, a separate committee has been formed to prepare an SOP for swimming, since pool activities involve different health risks compared to other sports.
The committee for swimming will be headed by Radhica Sreeman, Executive Director, TEAMS Division of SAI. The members of the committee will include Monal Choksi, secretary-general of the Swimming Federation of India, senior coaches, and doctors.
The committee will draw up the guidelines in consultation with coaches and medical practitioners to ensure all preventive measures are put in place before swimmers resume training.
