GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 18th Dec. Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Friday introduced a bill in Lok Sabha which seeks to provide a statutory framework for the functioning of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) and the National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL) besides strengthening measures to tackle drug abuse in Indian sports.
The bill is intended to provide a “statutory framework for the operation of the National Anti-Doping Agency, the National Dope Testing Laboratory and other dope testing laboratories and for creation of a National Board for Anti-Doping in Sports to strengthen anti-doping activities in sport.”
The anti- doping bill seeks to give NADA powers of “investigation, levying sanctions for Anti-Doping Rule Violations, the disciplinary procedures to be adopted and the powers of inspection, sample collection and sharing and free flow of information.”
It also provides for the establishment of the NDTL and other dope testing laboratories.
The NDTL is currently suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for failing to meet technical requirements.
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