The Indian Olympic Association has shaped a four-member ad-hoc committee to conduct the elections of the Volleyball Federation of India and likewise to run the affairs of the National physique until the federation’s new government committee is in place.
“The ad-hoc committee includes an official of volleyball’s world body FIVB and it will start functioning soon,” a outstanding IOA official advised The Hindu on Tuesday.
“The trials to select the men’s and women’s teams for the Asian Games (in Hangzhou, China, September) will be held under the ad-hoc committee’s guidance in Bengaluru.”
The IOA had shaped the ad-hoc committee on the recommendation of the Union Sports Ministry and after holding discussions with the FIVB on the deadlock in Indian volleyball. The committee features a former India tennis participant and the names can be formally introduced quickly.
The committee must conduct the VFI elections inside 45 days of its formation and likewise handle the affairs of the VFI, together with collection of gamers for the assorted worldwide occasions until the federation’s newly-elected office-bearers take cost.
The Asian Games choice trials, which can be held with the assist of the Sports Authority of India, can be on the Bengaluru SAI from June 18 to twenty (for males) and from June 20 to 22 (for girls). It is open to all gamers.
A seven-member committee for males, which could have Dronacharya awardee Shyam Sunder Rao because the chairman, and a six-member committee for girls, headed by one other Dronacharya awardee A. Ramana Rao, have been shaped to pick the Asian Games groups.
