Chhattisgarh State Tennis Association president Vikram Singh Sisodia has been included as the executive council member of Indian Olympic Association. He is among the 9 officers selected for the executive. Only Sisodia got this success from Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.
Sisodia, who represents Chhattisgarh in the Indian Olympic Association, has given the credit of his selection to the president of Chhattisgarh Olympic Association Raman Singh and general secretary Baldev Singh Bhatia. He expressed hope that with the representation of Chhattisgarh in the Indian Olympic Association, improvement would come in the sports infrastructure of the State and the players would get more opportunities at national
level sports. Sisodia said that players would get benefit of the representation of Chhattisgarh in IOA. In the days to come, Chhattisgarh would make an identity in it. He said, his priority would be to link more and more sports unions of the State with national sports unions and to ensure their representation. His efforts would be to impart training to the sports persons of the State by national level coaches and to hold camps, besides conducting more and more national level sports competitions in the State.
He said concrete steps would be taken to strengthen sports infrastructure and efforts would be made to open more sports academies in the state. He said, after searching energetic sports persons residing in far-flung areas, he would try to bring medals through better performance in different sports. Efforts would be made to give more facilities for sports like athletics and swimming.