The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on 22 November 2011 decided to set up an 11-member Athletes Commission to give more representation to sports persons in its general assembly and executive board.
The 11 members will be picked by sportspersons who have qualified for the 2012 London Olympics. The outgoing IOA secretary-general Randhir Singh highlighted that the initiative was taken in keeping with the International Olympic Committee's charter.
The IOA will set up an 11-member Athletes Commission. The sportspersons selected/qualified for the London Olympics will, among themselves, select the members for the commission. Two members among the 11 will be elected to the IOA's General Assembly and one to the Executive Board. They will have the privilege of full voting rights.
An Olympic monitoring committee which will have one sportsperson, who s qualified for the London Games from each discipline, as its member is set to be launched.
The IOC charter also proposed setting up of Olympian Association of India (OAI). The meeting to hold elections for the OAI was scheduled for 12 December 2011.
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