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MUMBAI: To curb accidents during adventure sports and unauthorised sports camps, the state government has come up with guidelines for private commercial organisers.

Now, the organisations promoting adventure sports must have to register with the Union tourism ministry and DGCA for air sports, Maharashtra Maritime Board for water sports and with forest department for those involve in climbing or mountaineering activities.

The state school education and sports department issued a government resolution (GR) on Thursday stating that all commercial organisers of adventure sports such as snowboarding, parasailing, skiing, hang gliding, paragliding, mountaineering, climbing must register with the Union tourism ministry for conducting any type of adventure sports.

The resolution came in the backdrop of an accident where, a boy from Maharashtra, died during a Himalayan mountaineering expedition 10 years ago and his parents had approached the Bombay high court accusing an organisation.

In its hearing, the HC had directed the Maharashtra government to come up with the law to prohibit non-registered organisations for undertaking such activities.

The sports department has approached the tourism department to decide precautionary measures. As per the recommendation made by the department and following experts' opinion, the state sports department finalised the guidelines on mandatory registration of the adventure sports camp operators or organisations.

