new delhi indian olympic association ioa president narinder dhruv batra on wednesday said that national sports competitions in india should return by octoberbatra was addressing a ficci webinar on sporting events embracing the new normal national sports competitions in india should return by october batra saidbatra added that unique standard operating procedures sops have already been put together for most sportswe have already put together unique sops for most sports and are in the process of identifying regional centres for sports where competitions will be allowed for instance bengaluru for hockey and delhi for shooting however we are yet to figure out the best sops for contact sports such as wrestling he saidbatra said that the government is supporting all sports in the country and there is a lot of positivity among players and they want to get back on the trackhe added that while working out and training at homes a players output is around 4050 percent hence once back on the field players need to move from basic load to medium and then high load and getting back to full load may take up to 23 months he saidformer cricketer and chairman of icc cricket committee anil kumble was also present during the webinar and said that the idea is to kickstart cricket and monitor the different aspects of the gamethe players need to have some cushion in terms of loading up their bodies to sustain test matches as they require time for training with the team said kumblevishal kumar dev commissionercumsecretary sports and tourism government of odisha said that covid19 has created havoc across the world and there is a need for partnership between the government and corporates for formulating out of the box solutions to ensure sports is back in india soonit is easy to issue sops and guidelines but difficult to implement them hence there is a need to assess the feasibility aspect of the implementation of sops that are being issued for players kumar saidon the other hand sanjog gupta chair ficci sports committee said that fan engagement is an integral part of sportsthe pandemic has removed the wall between fans and viewers which has given a huge opportunity to have more fans connected with and cheering for the game than ever before there is a need to redesign the sporting experience for millions of fans across the world gupta said