Saturday 30th August 2008

Suresh Kalmadi

Kalmadi to meet state associations

IOA president Suresh Kalmadi will soon meet the state associations in Delhi to discuss the "blue print" for the sport's future.

"I shall be calling a meeting in Delhi shortly to chart out a blue print for streamlining the future of Indian hockey," Kalmadi said in a letter to the state associations.

Apart from the president of the Indian Olympic Association, Kalmdai is also the chairman of the ad-hoc committee to run hockey in the country.

In a show of defiance, former chief of the now dissolved Indian Hockey Federation KPS Gill has called an AGM in Delhi on September 17.

The agenda includes adoption of accounts of three financial years, appointment of an auditor, nomination of representatives to the IOA and pending legal cases and IOA's action against the IHF following the bribery scam involving its secretary general K Jothikumaran.