New Delhi: The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) has given two weeks to the Wrestling Monitoring Committee to submit its report concerning the complaints of India’s prime wrestlers like Tokyo Olympics bronze medalist Bajrang Punia, World Championship medalist Vinesh Phogat and Rio Olympics. given time. Bronze medalist Sakshi Malik.
In January this yr, the wrestlers went on a sit-in at Jantar Mantar within the nationwide capital over a number of points. The largest of those was the allegation that the pinnacle of the Wrestling Federation of India, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, misused his place and sexually harassed ladies wrestlers. There have been different claims like monetary embezzlement on the a part of WFI and its workplace bearers.
A launch issued by MYAS on Thursday stated that the monitoring committee had requested for an extension of two weeks. The committee consists of Olympic medalists Mary Kom and Yogeshwar Dutt, in addition to former shuttler Trupti Murgunde and wrestler-turned-politician Babita Phogat. Radhika Sriman, who’s the previous Executive Director of Teams on the Sports Authority of India, and CRD (Retd) Rajesh Rajagopalan, who’s the previous CEO of the Target Olympic Podium Scheme, are additionally members of the six-person committee.
The extension signifies that the Oversight Committee can even be accountable for the day-to-day affairs of the WFI for at the very least two extra weeks.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
