Hockey India president Narender Dhruv Batra has announced that he will not be part of the evaluation committee he formed last fortnight to evaluate Indian team’s performance at the HWL SF held at Antwerp, Belgium.

His decision assumes significance against the raging controversy of national chief coach Dutch Import Paul van Ass’ reluctance to return to India, quoting he has been ‘fired’, which HI refutes.

The Committee to be chaired by triple Olympian and national selector Harbinder Singh, will sit tomorrow for the first time. Since Batra has said that he will go by the decisions of the Committee, the meeting is eagerly expected

“If the Committee will ask me to bring back Paul van, I will go to Netherlands to fly him in business class”, Batra said this site yesterday.

“This is an independent committee, all the members are Olympians or international players. I am also looking forward to their decisions’, he added.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Olympians B.P Govinda, Vasudevan Baskaran, A.B Subbaiah, Thoiba Singh, R.P Singh, Asunta Lakra and Jasjeet Kaur. The meeting will be held tomorrow (24 July 2015).

The Special Committee will review the reports, relevant data etc and provide feedback and recommendations for the future course of action for the Teams in their preparation for the 2016 Olympic Games.