Athletes always want to find a competitive edge that can help them get better in their sport. Many do this by training hard, resting well, embodying mindfulness and living healthy lifestyles. Sometimes though — whether because of a friend, a coach, or a personal decision — athletes take substances that can give them a short term edge over their competitors. They risk not just their careers by inviting bans but also their health for the foreseeable future.
List of Prohibited Substances
The Objective
NADA India’s Education Plan lays out its objectives very distinctively which are as follows:
- Guiding the implementation of NADA India’s education and awareness initiatives
- Raising awareness against doping in sports
- Promoting values associated with sports and fair play amongst the sports ecosystem in India.
- Sensitizing athletes and athlete support personnel against doping in sports
- Providing accurate and timely anti-doping information to all stakeholders
- Monitoring, evaluating and reporting the anti-doping education and awareness activities
The Eco-system
NADA India is working to sensitize all stakeholders in the national sports ecosystem and is committed to increasing anti-doping awareness amongst all target group to prevent the spread of doping in sports. NADA India has recognized the following key stakeholders:
- College / University Level Athletes
- State Level Athletes
- National Level Athletes
- International Level Athletes
- Coaches
- Managers
- Trainers
- Agents
- Team Staff
- Parents
- Sports medicine practitioners & physiotherapists
- Medical/ Para-medical personnel
- Anti-doping practitioners
- Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports
- Ministry of Education
- National Dope Testing Laboratory
- Sports Authority of India
- Sports Departments of States & Union Territories
- National Sports Federations
- National Sports Promotion Organizations
- Indian Olympic Association
- Paralympic Committee of India
- School Games Federation of India
- Police Sports Control Board
- Services Sports Control Board
- Railway Sports Promotion Board
- NGOs & CSR organizations working in sports development
- Sports Clubs, Academies & Training Centres
- Sports Institutions funded by Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Government of India
- Other Sports & Physical Education Colleges & Universities
- Physical education teachers
- Physical Education Institutes such as National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Hyderabad
- National Forensic Sciences University
- Food Safety Standards Authority of India
- Sports Medicine, Sports Science & Sports Research Institutions
- Medical Institutions
- Media personnel
- Sports Law Professionals
- National Sports Event Organizers
- Competition Managers
- Sports Event Sponsors
- Sports Events Logistics Agencies
Delivering the Programme
NADA India has been providing anti-doping education content, enhancing outreach communications and enabling access to informationThe Agency is endeavouring to make anti-doping content and information available in all vernacular languages of India to ensure last-mile reach and increased awareness at the grassroots. Some of the delivering tools for the education and awareness programmes of the Agency includes the following:
- In-person workshops
- Social media campaigns
- Website updates
- E-learning courses through WADA’s ADeL platform
- Print brochures, flyers and pamphlets
- Audio visual content
- Short films
- Content in UDL
- Multi-lingual content
- IEC Vans
- NADA India Information kiosks
- Interactive tools including quizzes and campaigns
- Mass outreach campaigns through emails, messages and automated calls
- NADA India helpline
NADA India has identified the below categories for the NADA India Education Pool based on the level of participation in sports, vulnerability to doping and need for anti-doping education:
education pool
target groups
School Sports Students
School Sports students, parents and Physical Education teachers
Young & budding athletes
Athletes identified at Sports Authority of India’s Khelo India Academies
Talented Athletes
Athletes training in Sports Authority of India’s National Centres of Excellence
National Level athletes
Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS), Development Group Athletes, Athletes Participating In National Events
International level athletes
Target Olympic Podium Scheme Athletes Athletes with any impairments participating in national and international events
RTP athletes
Athletes identified in the Registered Testing Pool
Athlete Support Personnel
Coaches, Managers, Trainers, Agents, Team Staff, Parents, Sports medicine practitioners & physiotherapists, Medical/ Para-medical personnel, Anti-doping practitioners
Athletes participating in recreational sports
Athletes training in fitness centres, gyms and engaging in recreational or non-competitive activities
Athletes serving ineligibility
Athletes serving ineligibility/returning from a sanction
Athletes with Disabilities
Athletes with any impairments participating in national and international events
NADA India's Inclusive Efforts
Athletes with Disabilities make up a large section of the sporting community and are affected by inadequate inclusive resources. To avoid inadvertent cases of Anti Doping Rule Violations, protect the rights of athletes with disabilities and provide a level-playing field, it is necessary to increase inclusive anti-doping outreach, awareness and education initiatives.
Athletes with Disabilities make up a large section of the sporting community and are affected by inadequate inclusive resources. To avoid inadvertent cases of Anti Doping Rule Violations, protect the rights of athletes with disabilities and provide a level-playing field, it is necessary to increase inclusive anti-doping outreach, awareness and education initiatives.
NADA India has developed anti-doping education content in Universal Design of Learning (UDL) to augment anti doping awareness efforts amongst athletes with disabilities. Information leaflets in Braille have also been developed.
NADA India is also signing Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with the Central Institute of Educational Training (CIET) and National Centre for Education & Research Training (NCERT), Ministry of Education, Government of India to develop inclusive and engaging anti-doping awareness content and tools.
Mutual Recognition and Sharing Resources of Anti-Doping Education & Awareness
The focus of NADA India’s Education Plan is to sensitize and educate the national sports ecosystem about anti-doping practices. NADA India also work with other Code Signatories to recognize their anti-doping program and reduce duplication efforts. Other Signatories may apply to NADA India through an official email for recognition of their program, submit their documented program and allow a period of 3 weeks to NADA India to send out the official notification. The anti-doping education resources developed by NADA India are also available to all other International Anti-Doping Organizations upon request and with due to credits.
In accordance with the International Standard for Education (ISE) the NADA India encourages Signatories to engage and cooperate with us, to carry out anti-doping education – in the interests of clean sport and to maximize effectiveness and minimize duplication.
Anti-doping education activities (for example, e-learning, sessions or an in-person workshop,) delivered to the International or Registered Testing Pool athletes must be recognized by us as meeting the requirements of the ISE. Signatories may apply for recognition of specific education activities for these athletes (and others) by completing and submitting this form.
Please contact edu-nadaindia@gov.in if you have any questions or further details.
To apply for recognition for anti-doping education activity – CLICK HERE