Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 5: In the election of Gymnastics Federation of India (GFI), which were held today at Indian Olympic Bhawan New Delhi, Kiran Wattal, Ex-Commissioner of Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC), has been elected unopposed as Vice-President of this National sports body for the term of four years.
Sudhir Mittal (Retd) of Punjab and Dr S Shanti Kumar Singh of Manipur too were elected unopposed as President and General Secretary respectively. Kaushik Bidiwala of Gujarat was elected Treasurer, whereas Anil Mishra of UP and Subharao of AP were elected Joint Secretaries.
The elections were held under the guidance of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and International Gymnastics Federation to further strengthen the federation and make sure that the sports fraternity does not suffer anymore.
IOA President, Dr Narinder Dhruv Batra, IOA General Secretary Rajeev Mehta, IOA (J&K) General Secretary Ashutosh Sharma and Gymnastics, J&K, General Secretary Ravinder Singh were also present on the occasion.
Former General Secretary FIG was the observer from FIG.
Wattal has been performing various activities in the field of sports and has been awarded with a number of medals for outstanding performance at State and national levels. By virtue of this sports background, his services were utilized for prestigious championships at Asian and National Levels.
He was Chef-de-Mission of Indian Squad for Asian Wrestling Championship held at Bangkok (Thailand) from 4 to 7 August, 2011, Observer for Junior Asian Basketball Championship held in New Delhi in 2001 and Vice-Chairman of National Table Tennis Championship held in Jammu in December 1996.
He has also served as Secretary of J&K Sports Council. More than 20 national championships of various games and events were conducted, which included Table Tennis, Badminton, Wushu, Basketball, Tanguetha and so on in a period of one year of his tenure in the Sports Council. He had also conducted a 2-day Yoga Workshop in Srinagar in 2012 which had witnessed a huge participation of locals. It was also attended by then Governor as chief guest on the concluding day.
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