Media should get access to CWG trials: Tarlochan

New Delhi: The Commonwealth Games Media and Publicity Committee Chairman Tarlochan Singh on Wednesday asked the

Sports Authority of India to stop shunting away journalists from the selection trials of the event at its various centres. After reports emerged of scribes being kept away from the trials, which are mostly being held at the Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports (NIS) in Patiala, Singh has written to SAI Director General Sayan Chatterjee asking for the lifting of the media ban. "It has been brought to our notice that media has totally been debarred from all the camps which are now being held at your centers for the Commonwealth Games teams. You will agree that this is the time when we should go all out to publicise all our efforts in providing training to our sportsmen and women selection trials are in progress and teams are being named," Singh said in the letter. "Please give all facilities to mediapersons to take pictures and meet the coaches and probable medal winners. The public is interested to know about them. I hope you will give the permission immediately. Your officers can be deputed to escort them," he wrote. PTI