services of diploma holders from national institutions for training of athletes as the reasons behind this few qualified coacheswe have only three iaaf qualified trainers in the country including myself so we have to invite iaaf qualified trainers from abroad and their accommodation flight tickets and his daily allowance will have to be taken care of by the federation it is a huge cost he saidwe are charging rs 25000 from each participant for the level 1 course and they will be provided with threestar accommodation their airfare and fooding the afi is bearing the cost of foreign trainersfor each level 1 course there will be one foreign trainer and one indian trainer nair is among three indian trainers who have done a special course in monacowe are going to request the iaaf to allow us have level 2 course in different event groups towards the end of next year by that time we will have at least 200 level 1 license holders who have coaching experience of one year and they can go for level 2 courseif we have enough level 2 license holders we can request the iaaf to allow us conduct level 3 course in india instead of having it in jakartaashwini nachappa soma biswas and sahana kumari and are among the former athletes who are taking part in the level 1 coursetill now only physical education teachers and former athletes are eligible to take part in this level 1 course we will open it up so that sports medicine and biomechanics experts can also take up these iaaf courses afi communications manager divesh bhal said