NEW DELHI: The Sports Authority of India (SAI) has won stunning complaints of sexual harassment from 3 of its regional centres, prompting it to sack one coach and order the compulsory retirement of an employee. An internal probe has been introduced towards any other coach.
The disregarded coach was from SAI's Tamil Nadu centre. About 15 junior athletes had sent a criticism in damaged English to the SAI headquarters, alleging that the coach was in the hunt for sexual favours from them. He had allegedly informed the ladies that a refusal would mean the top in their careers.
A identical criticism won from junior campers in Gujarat is beneath investigation. In any other harassment case reported from SAI centre in Bengaluru, an accountant was discovered sending lewd text messages to a woman coach on the academy.
On learning about the spate of complaints, SAI director normal Neelam Kapur handled the problem immediately. She fired the coach involved within the Tamil Nadu case within 3 months after he was indicted in an internal probe.
Upon learning that his trainees had complained about him, the coach threatening the ladies over loudspeaker, asking them to show who all had written towards him. The SAI probe discovered that the coach was a recurring wrongdoer and sacked him.
To "set a precedent for future cases and to send a strong message to coaches posted at other regional centres", the SAI now not most effective sacked the coach, but additionally ensured that he's going to now not get his pension.
TOI is withholding the identities of the coach and trainees as neatly the positioning of the centres for the reason that topic is said to junior campers. There are a total of 14,000 trainees (7,000 boys and seven,000 women) throughout all SAI centres in India.
In the harassment case associated with Gujarat, SAI is within the technique of verifying the veracity of the criticism. Sources mentioned the coach is likely to be sacked if the accusations towards him are discovered to be true.
In the Bengaluru case towards a SAI accountant, the DG introduced an internal investigation and the accused was immediately requested to take compulsory retirement.
Kapur informed TOI that her organisation will continue to behave swiftly in such circumstances while underlining the wish to revamp all the training device. "We have taken strong action in these cases as we want the message to go down the system. These young girls were scared but showed the courage to write to us. There is a need to launch an awareness programme on harassment for which we, as an organisation, will be taking some important steps to ensure that a relationship between a coach and his/her trainee always remain healthy," she mentioned.
The DG mentioned there will be a time-bound probe into any allegation of harassment and recommended motion will be taken. "We will look at prevention through awareness campaigns where we will invite NGOs registered with the women and child development ministry to hold sessions for girl trainees. They will be made aware about sexual harassment and how to deal with it. The sessions will preferably be in local languages of the respective centres," she mentioned.
Kapur additionally mentioned that the sports ministry is within the technique of putting in place a nationwide name centre whose officials will often name nationwide campers at quite a lot of centres to find out about their growth as an athlete, the meals, the facilities and the problems confronted by them.
"It will be operational within a couple of months. Also, the girl trainees will be given numbers of the members of the ICC. These numbers will be prominently displayed on the notice board of all SAI centres," she mentioned.
The disregarded coach was from SAI's Tamil Nadu centre. About 15 junior athletes had sent a criticism in damaged English to the SAI headquarters, alleging that the coach was in the hunt for sexual favours from them. He had allegedly informed the ladies that a refusal would mean the top in their careers.
A identical criticism won from junior campers in Gujarat is beneath investigation. In any other harassment case reported from SAI centre in Bengaluru, an accountant was discovered sending lewd text messages to a woman coach on the academy.
On learning about the spate of complaints, SAI director normal Neelam Kapur handled the problem immediately. She fired the coach involved within the Tamil Nadu case within 3 months after he was indicted in an internal probe.
Upon learning that his trainees had complained about him, the coach threatening the ladies over loudspeaker, asking them to show who all had written towards him. The SAI probe discovered that the coach was a recurring wrongdoer and sacked him.
To "set a precedent for future cases and to send a strong message to coaches posted at other regional centres", the SAI now not most effective sacked the coach, but additionally ensured that he's going to now not get his pension.
TOI is withholding the identities of the coach and trainees as neatly the positioning of the centres for the reason that topic is said to junior campers. There are a total of 14,000 trainees (7,000 boys and seven,000 women) throughout all SAI centres in India.
In the harassment case associated with Gujarat, SAI is within the technique of verifying the veracity of the criticism. Sources mentioned the coach is likely to be sacked if the accusations towards him are discovered to be true.
In the Bengaluru case towards a SAI accountant, the DG introduced an internal investigation and the accused was immediately requested to take compulsory retirement.
Kapur informed TOI that her organisation will continue to behave swiftly in such circumstances while underlining the wish to revamp all the training device. "We have taken strong action in these cases as we want the message to go down the system. These young girls were scared but showed the courage to write to us. There is a need to launch an awareness programme on harassment for which we, as an organisation, will be taking some important steps to ensure that a relationship between a coach and his/her trainee always remain healthy," she mentioned.
The DG mentioned there will be a time-bound probe into any allegation of harassment and recommended motion will be taken. "We will look at prevention through awareness campaigns where we will invite NGOs registered with the women and child development ministry to hold sessions for girl trainees. They will be made aware about sexual harassment and how to deal with it. The sessions will preferably be in local languages of the respective centres," she mentioned.
Kapur additionally mentioned that the sports ministry is within the technique of putting in place a nationwide name centre whose officials will often name nationwide campers at quite a lot of centres to find out about their growth as an athlete, the meals, the facilities and the problems confronted by them.
"It will be operational within a couple of months. Also, the girl trainees will be given numbers of the members of the ICC. These numbers will be prominently displayed on the notice board of all SAI centres," she mentioned.
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