Indian shooting coach denied US visa to accompany team
India`s pistol shooters competing in the ISSF World Cup in Fort Benning, USA will be without the services of coach Sayed Wajid Ali as he has been denied visa to travel for the May 4-13 tournament.
|Last Updated: May 06, 2013, 03:58 PM IST|Source: Bureau
New Delhi: India`s pistol shooters competing in the ISSF World Cup in Fort Benning, USA will be without the services of coach Sayed Wajid Ali as he has been denied visa to travel for the May 4-13 tournament.
The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) said the US embassy is yet to give a reason for denying the government core-group coach visa.
"He has been denied visa though we don`t know the reason behind that. He is also yet to get the passport back," NRAI adviser Baljeet Singh Sethi said.
"Though the other coaches are there, it is unfortunate as far as the pistol shooters are concerned. His presence would have certainly helped them," Sethi added.
Normally, four coaches are employed as part of the core group, and they are entitled to travel with the team for international tournaments.
"It is very unfortunate as Ali has been there as a coach for a while now and had travelled with the team to a few other countries.
"The federation has also got the foreign affairs ministry write a letter to the US embassy in this regard, but still he could not go," Sethi said.
The NRAI had a feeling that Ali could face problems in getting the visa, so the federation had informed him in advance to file his application.
Some of the pistol shooters taking part in the competition in the USA are Annu Raj Singh and Heena Sidhu (women), Amanpreet Singh, Jitu Rai, Prakash Nanjappa and Om Prakash (men).
Nanjappa emerged as India`s latest success story in shooting with a bronze medal in the pistol event of the ISSF World Cup in Changwon, South Korea, last month.
Sethi meanwhile, said the government has approved the name of the national pistol coach.
PTI
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