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Playing a vital role in the development of the overall
personality of an individual, sports are an import facet of human
life. Played in numerous forms, varying from those deploying
physical activities to the ones involving strategizing instincts,
these games have always been a part of the schedule of human life.
These activities inculcate a sense of discipline, self-confidence,
time management, team building, and cooperation of
sportsmanship.
Doping in Sports
While sports encourage the spirit of competitiveness amongst the
players, the increasing competition in the modern world has led to
the elevation in the stress levels. Pressure is created on the
player taking part in the activities causing them to improve their
performance at any cost. With a view to enhance their athletic
performance, the sports persons take recourse to doping which
involves consumption of banned drugs. This has turned out to be
great menace for the sports authorities to tackle attributable to
its unethical and illegal nature being unfair to the honest players
and having adverse impact on the health of the consumers of the
prohibited drugs. Doping is mainly done with the intent to cheat
and to have an edge over the others.
Doping Control Mechanism
The World Anti-Doping Agency (hereinafter referred to as
"WADA"), established in 1999, is an international
independent agency supported by sport movement and governments of
the world having key activities like scientific research,
education, development of anti-doping capacities, and monitoring of
anti-doping policies in all sports and of all countries.
At the domestic level, National Anti-Doping Agency (hereinafter
referred to as "NADA") is the national organisation set
up for fostering, coordinating, and monitoring the doping control
program in sports in all its forms in India. It is also engaged in
promoting anti-doping research and planning, implementing,
regulating anti-doping information and educational programs thereby
creating awareness about doping and its ill effects.
NADA has introduced the National Anti-Doping Rules, 2015
(hereinafter referred to as "NADA Rules") which deals
with adopting and implementing anti-doping rules and policies
conforming with the guidelines issued by the WADA. The NADA Rules
laying down the condition for athletes and athlete's support
personnel for participation in sports event, as also the manner of
collection of samples for conduct of result management of dope test
results and conduct of disciplinary and appeal panel proceedings at
national level.
Working with the objective of dope free sports in India and
strengthen the National Anti-Doping Program, NADA Rules protect the
rights of the Athletes while maintaining the integrity of sport and
provide awareness about consequences of doping. Justifying the true
essence of sports by the virtue of ethics, fair play, honesty,
India has formulated its policies to control the doping in sports
occurring within the territorial limits of the nation. However, it
is still confronted with the challenges posed by the pleas due to
lack of awareness. The NADA Rules are expected to address the
concerns of the athletes and their coaches by appropriately
educating them about their rights and responsibilities
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