Why Is the Merged Districts’ Sports Directorate Silent on UNDP Bicycles?

 

In September 2024, a formal request was submitted to the Sports Directorate of the merged districts, asking where the bicycles provided by UNDP were, who had received them, and why they hadn’t been delivered to the cyclists of the merged tribal areas. Unfortunately, no response has been received from the Directorate to date.

The application raised key questions:

Why were the bicycles not placed in an official store?

If there is a stock register, what identification numbers were assigned to these bicycles?

And if a coach currently has possession of them, how many individuals have received training so far?

These bicycles could have been a valuable asset for the youth in the merged tribal districts with an interest in cycling. Yet, to this day, not a single athlete has received one, and no public record exists that shows how or where these bikes have been used.

Is it possible that the Directorate lacks a proper facility to store the bicycles? And if so, was that the reason for handing them over to a coach? If that decision was officially made, where is the notification or documentation?

What’s more troubling is that even under the Right to Information Act, the requested details have not been shared. The absence of transparency and the clear evasion of accountability cast a shadow over the entire affair.

Until the whereabouts and usage of these bicycles are made public, these unanswered questions will continue knocking at the doors of the Sports Directorate.

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