vimal kumar president karnataka badminton association age fraud in a sport is a menace that needs to be arrested right at the beginning such is the current situation in india that every age certificate parents produce whether authentic or fake is looked upon with a certain amount of suspicion and doubt some parents claim they dont have the necessary hospital records to determine their childs age when the association challenges this they go to court and the laws help them obtain a certificate authenticating whatever records they produce the only way out is implementation of a mandatory government certificate it should be a must when the child is two or three years old when parents approach schools or nurseries for enrolment such a document may not completely eradicate age fraud but will certainly help bring down manipulation to two or three months a directive should be sent to all schools and sports federations across india that no parent should be encouraged without such a document they should be strict so theres a fear which discourages any plans of age manipulation furthermore government policies should be made transparent so they reach the common man a lot of good decisions tend to remain on paper more importantly the central bureau of investigations sports integrity unit should come up with guidelines that cannot be challenged or appealed against by fraudsters the need of the hour is implementation of a government age verification certificate only with such foolproof measures in place i feel that 510 years from now well be able to confidently say weve eradicated age fraud in our country