650 coaches and 1500 in pre level across various levelson the upgradation of the coaching programme he added we will start with grassroot as once foundation is strong elite will automatically get strongerthis is a world athletics course and they will award the certificates those coaches are for our identified events 400m walk javelin long jump and triple jumpthere will be a different set of coaches for junior and senior athletes we have recently identified kerala karnataka punjab rajasthan and haryanaduring the meeting the afi brass analysed the areas where it did well and also tried to identify the ons where it didnt and the reasons for ita coaching education programme has started we need at least 5000 level one coaches if we wish to cover 500 district