By NNN-PTI
New Delhi : Government is in the process of finalising a comprehensive national sports policy which will impress upon the National Sports Federations (NSFs) to reform and modernise themselves to meet the challenges of modern day sport.
The policy will also entail establishment of an independent sports arbitration and mediation mechanism based on international best practices, to resolve disputes between or within the NSFs or between an individual NSF and the players, Sports Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said in reply to questions in the Lok Sabha.
The NSFs are autonomous bodies having their own Memorandum of Association and Articles of Associations and the government does not interfere with the internal working, Aiyar said.
He, however, said that the Sports Ministry reserves the right to suspend or withdraw the recognition of NSF in the event of serious irregularities being detected in their internal functioning.
“In case the government feels that the federation is not functioning in the best interest of development of sport for which it was granted recognition, the government may withdraw the recognition granted by it to the federation,” he said.