Indian Athletics – Annual General Body Meeting – day 1

Delhi, 13 April 2013 – The two-day Annual General Body Meeting of the federation has commenced at Hotel Mapple Emerald, Rajokari, New Delhi on Saturday.   Following were the key decisions taken during the opening day of the above meeting.

 Election of office-bearers

 

The main agenda on the opening session on 13th April 2013 of the AGM had been the Election of Office-Bearers, viz., President, Senior Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, which was taken up at 10.30 a.m.

 Although the Federation had conducted its regular Elections at Manesar in 2012, the re-election for the key office-bearers had to be conducted as per the directives of the Ministry of Sports after making certain amendments in the constitution of AFI.  

Accordingly fresh nominations were called for and the election process was conducted by the Returning Officer Mr M.S. Upadhye, I.P.S. (Retd).  The election is being conducted as per the constitution of AFI. The AGM was supervised by Mr S.D. Bakshi (Observer), the Government Representative and Mr Rakesh Gupta (Observer), who represented the Indian Olympic Association.

 

 The following persons were elected unanimously–

President                            :  Mr Adille J. Sumariwalla (Maharashtra Athletics Association)

Senior Vice-President      :   Mr W.I. Davaram (Tamil Nadu Athletics Association)

Secretary                             :  Mr C.K. Valson (Tamil Nadu Athletics Association)

Treasurer                            :  Mr P.K. Srivatsava (Uttar Pradesh Athletics Association)

 The newly elected office-bearers will hold office till 2016.   The House unanimously welcomed the newly elected office-bearers.

 After the deliberations it was decided to make Selection Trials mandatory for selecting the athletes for all International competitions.  

 Further it was decided to disaffiliate the units which are not regular in conducting their annual championships and fails to field their athletes to the national competitions.

Delhi March 25  

The Executive Committee Meeting and Annual General Body Meeting of Athletics Federation of India (AFI) will be held on 13th and  14th April 2013 in Hotel Maple, Rajokari, New Delhi at 10.30 A.M.

 Apart from the regular agenda, the election for the post of President/Senior Vice President/Hony. Secretary/Treasurer for the term ending 2016 will also be held in this meeting on 13th April 2013. For more information on Annual General Body Meeting click sublinks given below:

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