The meeting, due to take place on March 26, will the first occasion Ramachandran has formally sat down with the IOC President since being elected as new head of the IOA last month.

His election helped end India's 14-month suspension from the IOC, which prevented India's athletes marching under the country's flag at the Opening Ceremony of Sochi 2014.

The ban was lifted two days after Ramachandran was elevated to the top job, allowing India to formally be part of the Winter Olympics. 

N Ramachandran met informally with IOC President Thomas Bach, along with Russian President Vladimir Putin, during Sochi 2014 but his meeting in Lausanne next week will be the first meeting since he was elected President of the IOA ©World Squash Federation

Ramachandran, who is also the President of the World Squash Federation, is due to brief the newly-elected IOA Executive Board about his visit on April 3. 

"Thomas Bach invited me to a meeting on March 26 to discuss a way forward for the IOA," said Ramachandran.

"I will meet him and then will discuss the entire matter with my colleagues here [in India]."

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