new delhi sports minister jitendra singh said transparency and accountability is the minimum that the national sports federations nsfs should have while functioning and also advocated the need to have more sportspersons in the sports bodies the minister said if india wants its athletes to do well at the international level the sports organisations require to follow some basic benchmarks some minimum practices and criteria need to be followed there must be at least transparency and accountability and there should be more sportspersons included in the sports organisations singh said while speaking on the sidelines of a cii event im not saying that it should consist of 100 per cent sportspersonsthats not possible because you need management and other skills also to run an organisation but some percentage of players must be included he added singh also said that a vision is required to attract talented youngsters towards sports as an option of fullfledged career we have to have a longterm plan main challenge is to identify talents at the grassroots level once that is done it is important to give them worldclass training besides encouraging them to make sports a fullfledged career in fact it is extremely necessary that they are assured of jobs even after their sporting careers are over so far we are working towards a vision plan it is important that we do it in a structured way said singh meanwhile singh once again assured that the ioas ban would be lifted sooner and the ministry would do everything needed to communicate with the international olympic committee ioc to sort out the issue we have written letters to the ioc but havent got any response so far but we are hopeful that something would work out soon im confident that the ban would be lifted in the near future said a confident singh