Minister of State (Independent Charge) forYouth Affairs and Sports Shri KirenRijiju has informed that Government of India deals only with the national level sports federations (NSFs) and grants recognition to them to become eligible to receive financial as well as other forms of assistance. A list of 56 NSFs recognised by the Government for different sports disciplines is given in the annexure.
Normally, elections are held by the NSFs at the intervals prescribed under the bye-laws of the concerned NSFs. In order to ensure that NSFs function in a democratic manner, Government has prescribed model election guidelines to be followed by the NSFs for their elections which has been made an integral part of the National Sports Development Code of India, 2011 (NSDCI). NSDCI, inter-alia, contains instructions on democratic and healthy management practices, age and tenure limits of office bearers, holding of elections as per model election guidelines devised by the Government, etc.
From the year 2010, the Government has introduced a system of annual recognition procedure for the NSFs, under which annual recognition is granted to those NSFs which comply with the provisions of NSDCI including holding of elections in time.