SAI promotes 12 chief coaches to director rank

In a landmark determination, the Sports activities Authority of India (SAI) has promoted 12 chief coaches to the place of Excessive Efficiency coaches, throughout its centres within the nation .

This is part of a cadre restructuring and the pay might be within the scale given to Director, Authorities of India, an announcement from SAI learn.

Notable coaches and former athletes took to twitter to share their ideas on the step taken.

“In a historic transfer, 12 SAI coaches have been promoted as Excessive Efficiency coaches, that is the same as the extent Director (GOI) due to restructuring carried out in SAI. Thanks for this superb step,” tweeted former Olympian boxer Akhil Kumar.

Nataraju Madaiah, volleyball coach primarily based out of SAI Nationwide Centre of Excellence Dharamsala, talked about, “I wish to thank the DG SAI for taking this super step. It's a enormous motivation for the coaches and it feels nice to see so many coaches getting the popularity. The event in sports activities lately, ranging from the Tokyo Olympics, has been manifold.” Babul Basumatary, senior athletics coach at SAI NCOE Guwahati, shared comparable sentiments.

“I thank SAI for giving me this platform. I’ve been teaching since 1992 and no matter SAI is doing to develop the teaching ecosystem and inspire the present coaches is excellent.” Record of coaches promoted as Excessive Efficiency coach: Harjinder Singh (Basketball) – SAI coaching centre Jammu, Babul Basumatary (Athletics) – NCOE Guwahati, Kishore Kumar (Judo) – NSNIS Patiala, Vinod Narayan (Badminton) – SAI Bangalore, Gangaraju TB (Hockey) – STC Kokrajhar, Tankeswari Basumatary (Athletics) - Guwahati, Satpal Singh (Athletics) – STC Kurukshetra, Nataraju Madaiah (Volleyball) – NCOE Dharamsala, PK Brahma (Soccer) – STC Kokrajhar, Rajinder Kumar (Soccer) – Chandigarh, Jaswant Singh (Boxing) – Mizoram, Kuldeep Kumar (Boxing) – STC Bhiwani