New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) More than 200 Sports Specific Volunteers (SSV) for the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games’ showpiece event athletics are running from pillar to post to get accredited as their police verification is yet to be completed.
The volunteers could not attend a two-day training camp that started Monday at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium as they had no accreditation.
‘This is a major problem as without accreditation SSVs can’t even enter the Nehru Stadium. The rules are very strict as the Home Ministry doesn’t want to take any chances on the security front,’ Competition manager C.K. Valson told IANS.
The Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC) had sought around 680 SSVs from the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) to help conduct the athletics event.
Valson had asked 683 SSVs to attend the training programme. However last week he wrote to them stating that those whose police verification is not completed need not come for the training.
This left the 200 SSVs whose police verification is yet to be done disappointed.
‘Despite submitting our police verification form during the accreditation process much before the deadline, none from the security agencies came to check our details. After we landed here we came to know that police verification is necessary. But we can’t be blamed, if the security agencies have not done their job,’ Jayanta Dalal, a SSV from West Bengal, told IANS.
Valson said that the Organising Committee is trying to provide accreditation for these 200 volunteers.
‘We still have some time in our hand and we have to get the remaining volunteers verified by local police and get over with the accreditation process,’ he said.
