bangalore top officebearers of national sports federations nsfs doubling up as vicepresidents of another nsf will face the heat sooner than later with the union sports ministry prepared to amend the definition of core functionaries of such bodieswhen pointed out that there were several officials working as one core functionary or another president secretary treasurer in one body and assuming the role of vicepresident in another nsf a top sports official admitted that such persons are safe as per the current guidelinesit is true that there are several persons playing dual roles with one of them being the post of vicepresident somehow vp is not in our list of core functionaries when we overhaul the codification we will look into this and other loopholes a top sports ministry official told toithe ministry official also said once all the nsfs migrated to a national registrar of societies which is on the anvil there would be more uniformity in their constitution we do have exceptions in some states now he saidafter issuing a showcause notice to all india chess federation aicf asking how its president n srinivasan can also be the secretary of the board of control for cricket in india bcci the ministry is also planning to scan all the nsfs to weed out the twinsthere are 23 more like the aicf president and we are in the process of checking all the 64 sports federations wherever there is a case of nonadherence we will ask them to comply with the guidelines the official saidformer sai secretary and ips officer bk sinha is president of the tennisball cricket federation of india and also the associate vicepresident in the athletics federation of india another top shot karti chidambaram is the president of tenpin bowling federation of india and the vicepresident of all india tennis association ministy to write to states the official also said the ministry was aware of a similar scenario in the state sports federations there are persons who hold multiple posts in state associations as well and it is not desirable we will soon write to the state sports ministries to ensure that one person holds only one post he saidthe official was also happy that more and more nsfs were seeing reason and were ready to adhere to the ministrys guidelines so far 16 federations including athletics badminton boxing and weightlifting have already amended their constitutions or are in the process of revamping them we have come a long way from the time the indian olympic association rejected the code he added top honorary workersbk sinha ips president tennisball cricket federation of india associate vp athletics federation of indiakarti chidambaram president tenpin bowling federation of india vp all india tennis associationid nanavati treasurer wrestling federation of india vp indian boxing federationbs adityan president volleyball federation of india vp national rifle association of india