panaji the goa university will not amend its sports policy after its academic council decided that it was best to give the policy a chance for at least a year the academic council of the goa university met for two days at the varsity campus last month the council felt that the sports policy must be allowed to function for at least a year we have adopted the policy only a couple of months ago and it would not be right to effect a change without feedback from all quarters the council decided to continue with the existing policy said a council member the academic council was apprised of the existing policy which has no provision for merit marks for participation at the numerous state championships organized by state associations the council however felt the policy should be given at least a years time before any change is effected if needed the policy is not cast in stone there can be changes if there is an overriding feeling from colleges and students that injustice is being done to some of them who cannot make it to the college squad but would have somehow made it to other teams at the state level but its too early to make any changes said the official the academic council was called to look into requests from the sports authority of goa sag and the goa olympic association goa both of whom were up in arms against the sports policy and had lodged strong protests sag executive director v m prabhudesai and goa general secretary gurudutta bhakta had earlier met university registrar v kamat who promptly referred the matter to the academic council the goa university adopted the sports policy 2009 two years after the goa board of secondary and higher secondary education had embraced the policy that aims at providing merit marks for participation and achievement in sports activities but there was a hueandcry raised in the assembly by sports minister manohar babu azgaonkar when the university seemed to drag its feet over implementation of the sports policy