AITA rejects panel’s proposal to have five SOM in EC
AITA rejected a Justice Gita Mittal-led proposal for five SOM roles in its Executive Committee and voted for two SOM roles plus four women in the EC.
- Sportspersons of Outstanding Merit (SOM) roles are positions in a federation’s leadership reserved for eminent sportspersons.
- National Sports Governance Act rules are claimed to set a minimum number of SOM roles in a federation’s executive body.
- AITA decided that each affiliated state association will send two delegates, and each delegate will have two votes.
- AITA kept election-related deadlines tied to the new constitution, with September 30 set for fresh elections.
What happened: AITA rejects Justice Gita Mittal’s five-SOM EC proposal
The All India Tennis Association (AITA) rejected a recommendation from a Justice (Retd.) Gita Mittal-led panel to create five Sportspersons of Outstanding Merit (SOM) roles in AITA’s 15-member Executive Committee (EC). At an Extraordinary General Meeting in New Delhi, AITA members voted to have two SOM roles rather than five.
AITA members said two SOM roles are the minimum number mandated under the National Sports Governance Act. AITA also voted to keep four women on the EC instead of five women proposed by Justice Gita Mittal.
UPSC can frame the issue as how sports federations translate the National Sports Governance Act’s minimum mandates into federation constitutions, while simultaneously designing EC composition and General Body voting rules that can become court-contested.
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