The fascinating world of Indian Taekwondo welcomes you.
You are entering the Official “Dynamic Web-Application” of Taekwondo Federation
of India (TFI).
TFI is Affiliated to Indian Olympic Association (IOA); World Taekwondo Federation
(WTF); Asian Taekwondo Union (ATU) & Commonwealth Taekwondo Union (CTU)).
An increasing number of girls and working women are learning Taekwondo for self
defense techniques right from village to the University level and competing in Kyorugi
and Poomsae Championships from District to National level.
To ensure transparency in TFI functioning all our Rules and Regulations are displayed
on this website.
We badly missed medals in Guangzhou Asian Games-2010 and Qualifying for London Olympics-2012
by a whisper.
We are working on plans for Incheon Asian Games-2014 and Rio Olympics-2016.
Suggestions for improvement are always welcome.
Harish Kumar
IPS (Retd)
President
Taekwondo Federation of India (TFI)
Executive Council Member
Asian Taekwondo Union (ATU)
Indian Olympic Association (IOA)
I joined the premier, Indian Police Service (IPS) in the year 1977 & belong to Haryana
Cadre. I have more than 27 years of police job experience of very senior level
Educational:
1. I hold a Bachelor’s degree from Punjab University (1972) with merit position
in Non-Medical Sciences.
2. I am a Graduate from Institute of Electronics & Communication (IETE), New Delhi.
Police Job Experience:
1. I served as District Superintendent of Police in Jind, Kurukshetra, and Hisar
& Gurgaon.
2. I have also served on Central Deputation with CISF as AIG HQ from 1987 to 1991.
3. I was promoted to the rank of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police in May
1993 and posted as DIG Gurgaon Range.
4. I was awarded Indian Police Medal for meritorious service on the occasion of
Republic Day 1994.
5. From April’94 to October’95, I served as DIG CID Haryana – with a brief stint
as DIG Hisar.
6. I joined National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) on deputation in May 1996 as Deputy
Director.
7. I was promoted as Inspector General (IG) of Police and took over as Director
National Crime Records Bureau from April 1, 2001 till September, 2001.
8. Presently I am holding the post of IG Police with Haryana Police.
Sports:
I am actively associated with sports promotion at national and international level
for the last 25 years.
At national level I am presently holding the following positions:
1. Executive Committee Member Indian Olympic Association (IOA)
2. President, Taekwondo Federation of India (TFI).
3. President, Indian Amateur Luge Association (IALA)
I am the founder president of Winter Sports Discipline “Luge” in India.
Chef-de-mission of India in Winter Olympics at Nagano Japan in Feb’1998. The lone
athlete to participate in the Nagano Olympics-1998 was from the discipline of Luge.
Taekwondo
In taekwondo, Indian athlete won for the first time a Bronze medal in Asian Games,
at Pusan Korea (2002).
Indian athletes have won medals in Asian Championships in senior and junior levels
as well.
At present, there are about 5000 Black belts registered with TFI and our target
is to increase the same to over 25,000 over next five-eight years. Similarly our
registered athlete base is also expected to jump up to 1 million over next 5-8 years.
About 1500 schools are going to introduce taekwondo in the current schooling year
of 2005-2006. This will result in more than 150 thousand new athletes joining taekwondo
in at sub junior and junior level.
More than 50 4-dan and above black belts are ready to appear for International referees.
India proposes to hold a IR Seminar every year for our own athletes as well athletes
from the neighbouring countries especially SAF nations.
For preparing our senior and junior teams for International and World Championships,
5 Regional Training Centres will start functioning from this year at Delhi, Lucknow,
Aurangabad Imphal and Bangalore.
These centres will function as centres of excellence and provide training to our
national level athletes including their education etc. Federation will manage and
run these RTCs by providing best training equipments, competitive environment and
facilities.
These RTCs will also try to accommodate athletes from neighbouring countries and
provide them training at much cheaper costs.