In a first, NADA to test CISF job seekers in June

Vinayak Padmadeo

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 17

The National Anti-Doping Agency will collect samples from prospective candidates who have applied for Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) posts under the sports quota.

This will be the first time that the agency will undertake such an exercise when it came to recruitment to the Central Armed Police Forces. The trials will be held across several centres in India between June 25- 27. NADA director general Navin Agarwal said that measure was needed to screen those candidates who would take prohibitive substances to get an advantage over others. “This is the first time that NADA is associating with paramilitary recruitment. But this is only for those who have applied to get jobs with the CISF under sports quota,” Agarwal told The Tribune.

“The CISF approached us and we agreed to undertake the sampling as both the CISF and NADA want only clean and honest sportspersons to get these jobs,” he added. This initiative was a pet project for Agarwal, who took over NADA in 2016. As an IPS officer Agarwal said he had seen the desperation to get a job from the candidates.

“I have seen how some undeserving and physically unfit candidates can go to any length to pass a physical fitness test or a sports proficiency test, and so we welcome this development,” he said. “I hope we can extend this facility to other recruitment schemes with Police, military or paramilitary recruitment, and to recruitment in other departments under the sports quota.”