Agreeing to the fact that the facilities available at Balewadi along with the climatic conditions in the city present the best endeavour to date, of the State Government to house a sports complex. Tawde, however, is an unhappy man with way things are at Balewadi, presently.

However, the 1966 Asian Games bronze medallist, believes that half of the problems could be solved if the government provides a permanent director to the Sports City. ``Whenever we are successful in convincing a director of what we want and he is about to place the orders, he is transferred. We have to repeat the same process with the new director.'' Incidentally, Balewadi was without a director for about three months in the recent past.

``It hampers our plans a lot and we don't get the required material or action on time,'' adds Tawde, who took over as the first principal of Prabodhini.

Another important aspect is the level of dissatisfaction among the coaches appointed. ``They do not have any facilities (i.e. pay scale and privilege leave) and above all, job security. They are treated as part-timers whereas they are working almost full time. How can you expect them to put forth their best when they themselves are not happy with the deal given by management. He also does not agree with the ratio between coaches and students. ``How can you expect quality ouput if one coach is to handle 50-60 students. Look at the system in foreign countries, where each player is assigned a special coach,'' he says.

Tawde believes setting up of more academies will not in any way boost talent in the State, and was of the opinion that with the present situation, the State government should only concentrate on developing the academy here. ``We have everything here and we should pay more attention to this place only. I had suggested this to the government, but still they went ahead with installing 11 more academies at different parts of the State.''

``What I feel is that we don't have much talent in the State. Whatever we have we can bring them here at Balewadi. Once this is successful, we can go ahead for others.'' Moreover, providing infrastructure at all of these 11 academies is now raising the problem of appointing good coaches.

``Only rising funds would be of any help for the academy. There has to be a concrete policy, if the government wants to see any success.'' With the present number of students (175), expected to be doubled from this year, Tawde has already launched a lone fight for improvement.

What Tawde wants is at least one technical director, a ratio of one coach per ten students, a high power committee who can take quick decision, director for minimum three-four years of tenure.