New Delhi: India's famous sportspersons welcomed the government's National Sports Bill providing for a "fair and transparent" election process.

The bill also provides the limitation to age and tenure for their office-bearers, saying the proposed measures were long overdue.

However by doing they put up in the sports ministry website, former Indian hockey captain Pargat Singh hoped that the new measures take sport in the country to a new era.

Pargat welcomed the age and tenure limitation provisions in the bill, saying that they should put an end to the long reigns of some of heads of National Sports Federations.