India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the establishment of a taskforce following the conclusion of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, where the second most populous nation in the world came back with two medals.

He confirmed the group will be formed of experts in a range of fields, both from India and across the globe.

India sent 118 athletes to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro but claimed only one silver and one bronze.

PV Sindhu made history when she became the first woman from India to win silver, which she got in the badminton singles.

Their other podium finish came thanks to Sakshi Malik, who became the first female Indian wrestler to win an Olympic medal when she clinched bronze in the women’s 58 kilograms freestyle category.

Members of the taskforce have now been revealed, with the country’s sole Olympic gold medallist Bindra set to be joined by two former athletes.

Two-time Commonwealth Games medallist and now national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand and former Indian hockey captain Viren Rasquinha have been appointed to the taskforce.

They will be joined by School Sports Promotion Board head Om Pathak, hockey coach S Baldev Singh, university professor G L Khanna, journalist Rajesh Kalra and Sports Authority of Gujarat director general Sandeep Pradhan.

"This task force is not a representative body where people of several disciplines will be there,” Indian Sports Minister Vijay Goel said, according to Firstpost.

“This task force is open for all, whoever wants to give ideas.

"If I start including people discipline-wise, so many names will come up and there will be no end.

“Anybody can give suggestions to this task force and moreover anybody can come and give the suggestion directly to the Sports Minister."

It is hoped the taskforce will help enhance the displays of the team at the Games and eradicate the poor showing of Rio 2016.

The taskforce are set to create an action plan in the forthcoming months, which will introduce short, medium and long-term measures to help the county in future Games.

Success at both the Asian and Commonwealth Games is also a target of the taskforce.

A similar initiative was installed ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, where Indian competitors won 101 medals, including 38 golds on home soil.

The Asian nation then went on to claim six medals at London 2012.

India is often plagued by in-fighting within its National Federations, which hampers the development of the country’s athletes.

Their Rio 2016 contingent were rocked by a drugs scandal involving wrestler Narsingh Yadav, who was initially cleared of a doping offence before he was banned for four years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.