Nepal Olympic Committee (NOC) president Jeevan Ram Shrestha on Thursday said that NOC would work to make Nepal’s participation in the 18th Asian Games result-oriented rather just a formality and exposure.

The upcoming Asian Games is scheduled for next year in Indonesia from August 18 to September 2. “Nepal’s Asian Games participation in previous editions has never been exciting in terms of results. The NOC has set the aim to make upcoming editions result oriented and qualitative. We have got South Asian Games for the exposure,” said Shrestha at a press conference who is also the CPN-UML candidate for House of Representative from Kathmandu constituency number 8. “We are planning to make special arrangements for Nepali team soon after the completion of the election. We will initiate to bring foreign coaches to Nepal for training and also send potential talents for training abroad. We are in talks with Russia, Qatar, Japan and Korea among others for abroad training,” added Shrestha.

Recalling that only karateka Bimala Tamang was able to win medal (bronze) at the 2014 Inchon Asian Games among 23 disciplines Nepal participated in, Shrestha said that the players selection process must be transparent for the Asian Games and every players need to be informed about selection tournament.

He also assured that sports associations need not knock the door of Ministry (of Youth and Sports) for talented players’ participation for the Games. “I urge sports associations to be active for preparations of the Games,” said Shrestha, also the former member secretary of the National Sports Council (NSC). The Indonesia Asian Game will feature 66 disciplines of 40 games.  Meanwhile, NOC named its vice president Jyoti Rana as the chef de mission for meeting of National Olympic Committees to be held in Indonesia on December 12-15.