Outgoing President of SFI Dhigambar Kamath (left) greeting newly-elected chief RN Jayaprakash 
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Tamil Nadu’s Jayaprakash elected President of SFI

Tamil Nadu’s RN Jayaprakash was on Friday elected as the President of the Swimming Federation of India (SFI).

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Chokshi Mondal of Gujarat was appointed the General Secretary, while Mekala Ramakrishna of Telangana has become the Treasurer. The office-bearers were elected for a four-year term during SFI’s annual general body meeting here. Jayaprakash, who was the Federation’s Vice-President earlier, is the first person from Tamil Nadu to be at the top.


Vice-Presidents Balraj Sharma (Punjab), Rajiv Sukumaran Nair (Kerala), Kamlesh D Nanavati (Gujarat), Piyush Sharma (Madhya Pradesh) and Anil Vyas (Rajasthan) are some of the other office-bearers who were elected. RB Pandey (Bihar), Ravin Kapoor (UP), Mohan Satish Kumar (Karnataka) and Anil Khatri (Haryana) will be Joint Secretaries.


All of them were chosen unanimously. Talking to reporters, Jayaprakash said steps would be taken for the development of swimming in India and efforts would be made to set up pools across the country. “Swimming academies would be set-up in Tamil Nadu to impart quality training. They will be similar to those functioning in Pune and Karnataka.”

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