From correspondents in Delhi, India, 09:30 PM IST

The Sports Ministry has named two foreign and eight Indian coaches for badminton under their scheme 'Preparation of Indian Teams for Commonwealth Games, 2010'.

Indonesia's Atik Jauhari has been appointed as singles coach while Australia's Jason Krufort will take on the reins of doubles coach.

National coach P. Gopichand and Sanjiv Sachdeva, Surinder Mahajan, Vijaydeep Singh, Ajay Kanwar, Bhaskar Babu, Siddharth Jain, and Manjusha Kanwar are the Indian coaches who have been named.

Besides names of 35 badminton players from the allotted 40 have been approved by the Steering Committee for their inclusion in 'core Group' of sportspersons.

As per the scheme, training will be provided to 20 badminton players each in men and women category. BAI has been asked to furnish more names to fill all slots.

The Steering Committee has also directed BAI to submit without delay the names of supporting personnel such as ports analyst, exercise physiologist, physiotherapist, masseur and masseuse as per the scheme for its approval.

SAI Centres at Lucknow, Bangalore and Gandhi Nagar have been selected for imparting training to the players.

(Staff Writer, © IANS)