In a first, Sports Authority of India is set to hire top-of-the-line professionals — nutritionists, chefs and managers — to ensure that athletes are given personalised diets at its centres.
The personalised diets will be provided at its centres in Delhi, Patiala, Bengaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, Kolkata, Bhopal, Gandhinagar, Lucknow, Imphal, Guwahati, Mumbai, Sonepat, Aurangabad, Rohtak and Alleppey. SAI has already sought applications from nutritionists, assistant nutritionists, chefs, assistant chefs and mess managers, to put in place an in-house system by September 15, 2019.
Parameters
To ensure that the best resources can be hired, remunerations have been kept at par with industry standards, with a thrust on technical competence and experience in a related field. Chefs and nutritionists will be hired at a salary of up to ₹1 lakh.
In the new system, the diet for each athlete, irrespective of age and category will be drawn up without any financial ceiling by the nutritionist in consultation with the coach training the athlete and on-campus sports science experts.
A series of checks have been put in place to ensure that the best quality food is served to athletes.
