new delhi the presence of extra officials in the commonwealth gamesbound indian contingent has become a major flashpoint between the sports ministry and the indian olympic association ioaalso read indias cwgbound wrestlers and shooters awaiting visason thursday ioa president narinder batra was critical of the sports ministry for reportedly reducing the extra officials in the contingent including badminton players saina nehwals father harvir singh and pv sindhus mother vijaya pusarla the ministry has apparently struck off the names of all 21 extra officials however the contingent list shared by batra showed 15 names have been dropped as per the ioa 222member athletes will be accompanied by 74 officialsthese extra officials are the actual requirements of the federations at the games and they are going on the federations cost i dont know why government is making so much noise batra said herethe names of 15 extra officials have already been omitted by the ministry the contingent list will be placed before sports minister rajyavardhan singh rathore for the final clearance on friday it would be interesting to see whether rathore persists with the ministrys decision or decides to send the extra officials at no cost to the governmentit has been learnt that batra had a telephonic conversation with rathore later in the evening and requested him to clear the extra officials including the names of sainas father and sindhus mother at no cost to the government rathore will finalise the contingent on fridayaccording to the list accessed by toi names of chief medical officer arun k mendiratta and physiotherapist hema valecha part of the ioas own contingent staff have been omitted by the ministry the other extra officials whose names have been dropped include everard graeme physio squash prem verma womens manager table tennis mahinder singh mens manager table tennis kishore dey physio table tennis harpreet kaur masseur table tennis rajeev tomar coach wrestling asit kumar saha coach wrestling vishal kumar rai physiotherapist wrestling satya sangwan manager para sports johnson physiotherapist badminton and either of aayush yekhande or gaurav ahluvalia physiotherapist boxingeven shooting coach and 10m air pistol specialist heena sidhus husband ronak pandit is likely to be dropped from the shooting contingent once the final list is cleared following approval the ministrys primary objection is that since it funds the federations through the national sports development fund nsdf as part of their annual competition and training calendar actc the money spent by them on the extra officials visit is also part of the tax payers money