India, March 9 -- The Indian shooting landscape is seeing a transformation with many elite shooters working with personal coaches and following individual training programmes. In the year of the Asian Games and World Championships, some of India's top names have chosen to train separately, opting out of the national squad camps.

The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) gave shooters this choice at the start of the season, allowing flexibility to plan their training in a busy year. Those to opt out include 10m pistol world champion Samrat Rana, World Championships medallists Anish Bhanwala (rapid fire), Elavenil Valarivan (air rifle), Esha Singh (air pistol) and 2022 air rifle world champion, Rudrankksh Patil. They will not attend t...