Manu Bhaker and Saurav Chaudhary should move to senior category now, says Jaspal Rana

Jaspal Rana is the lead at the National Rifle Association of India's (NRAI) junior programme led by its president Raninder Singh. Rana also explained that apart from producing young prodigies the program is striving for excellence in shooting for the country.

“Whoever performs should be in the team. Half of the people will shoot in junior (tournaments) only once in a lifetime. This was the only chance they (Bhaker and Chaudhary) had of competing in the Youth Olympic Games. You have to organise your calendar that way. From now on, they should be shooting in senior (tournaments only) to seal Olympic quotas. At the end of this year, we have Asian Championships with most Olympic quota places on offer. For that, anyone shooting big scores should be there (in the team). For now, the quota place matters, not the medal” Rana told Timesofindia.com

“I think it's 100 per cent due to the success of this junior programme. It not only pushed the junior and youth shooters but also the seniors. When there's someone snapping at your heels, you find the capacity to run faster, the same way as athletes (runners). If you see their timings, like 100m, from when the Olympics started, people have improved tremendously. Everybody is trying different ways of doing it (improving). Because of this programme, both youth and junior (shooters) pushed each other, as well as the seniors. So now most of the time the juniors are in the main teams. It's a win-win situation."