Sports Authority of India promotes 12 coaches to level of director

NEW DELHI: The Sports Authority of India (SAI) has taken a landmark decision to promote 12 chief coaches across SAI centres in the country to the position of a High Performance Coach. This is a part of a cadre restructuring and the pay will be in the scale given to Director, Government of India. Among the 12 coaches four are from Assam.

Notable coaches and former athletes took to twitter to share their thoughts on the step taken. Babul Basumatary, senior Athletics coach at SAI NCOE Guwahati, said, "I thank SAI for giving me this platform. I've been coaching since 1992 and whatever SAI is doing to develop the coaching ecosystem and motivate the existing coaches is outstanding."

List of coaches promoted as High Performance coach:Harjinder Singh (Basketball) – SAI training 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 (Football) – STC Kokrajhar, Rajinder Kumar (Football) – Chandigarh, Jaswant Singh (Boxing) – Mizoram, Kuldeep Kumar (Boxing) – STC Bhiwani.

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