Frenchman Stephane Cottalorda, a member of the European Boxing Confederation's Coaches Commission, was appointed to the role in May and will initially serve until at least December 2018.

The 41-year-old is rated as a three-star coach by the International Boxing Association (AIBA) and has also been a certified coach in AIBA Pro Boxing and the World Series of Boxing.

His immediate aim will be to prepare his fighters for the 2017 ASBC Asian Women's Boxing Championships, which are scheduled to take place in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam from October 26 to November 12.

Another important event is the Youth and Junior World Boxing Championships in Indian city Guwahati from November 21 to 30.

But Cottalorda, an experienced coach of female boxers in France, also has one eye on the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

This is despite India failing to qualify any female boxers for last year’s Games in Rio de Janeiro.

"I was interested in this mission because the objective is to prepare the women's team for Olympics," he told the Press Trust of India.

"Indian boxing is developing well and the proof of it is that India will organise the Youth and Junior World Championships for women this year."

Cottalorda said he does not expect it to be difficult to find talent in India given the size of the country. 

The nation's star female boxer is Mary Kom, a five-time world champion and London 2012 Olympic bronze medallist at flyweight.

"The Indian women boxers have brought back medals for the country and you had a very big renowned champion in the world - M C Mary Kom," Cottalorda added.

"India is a big nation as far as boxing in Asia goes.

"My immediate plan is going to be to see as many boxers as possible to get an estimate about the general level of girls.

"I also need to know the other coaches who will work with me and the Indian system.

"After gathering my estimates, I shall get an idea of where the Indian girls stand in international competitions against other girls.

"With that idea of their strengths and the weaknesses, I will draw up a more precise plan."

Gurbax Singh Sandhu, the long-serving women’s chief coach, has welcomed Cottalorda’s appointment.

"Women boxers would be training with a foreigner for the first time and I hope it will get good results for Indian boxing," Sandhu was reported as saying by The Indian Express.

Also appointed by the India Boxing Federation (BFI) is Italy’s Raffaele Bergamasco, who will be in charge of the country’s youth female boxers.

Bergamasco, who like Cottalorda is rated as a three-star coach by AIBA, has been appointed until December 2020.

He has been a coach of Italian boxers, both men and women, at senior and youth level.

Santiago Nieva, who was appointed the men’s coach in March, has been given the same length of contract as Bergamasco.

Born in Argentina but raised in Sweden, Nieva is a member of the AIBA Coaches Commission.

It is the first time in Indian boxing’s history that three foreign coaches have been drafted in at numerous levels to coach fighters.

In March, the BFI welcomed a delegation of more than 100 AIBA Commission members to New Delhi for two days of meetings, during which their recommendations for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic cycle were discussed and finalised.

India was chosen as the venue for the 2017 Commissions Meetings in a signal of support for the BFI administration under President Ajay Singh, who was elected in September of last year.

India's full membership within AIBA was unanimously reinstated at the Extraordinary Congress at the close of 2016, after the former National Governing Body, Boxing India, was suspended by AIBA in 2014, meaning boxers were forced to fight under the umbrella of the International Federation.

It came after the Indian Olympic Association rejected Boxing India's application for Federation recognition, instead backing the controversial Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (IABF).

The IABF had previously been suspended by the Indian Government and AIBA in December 2012 for not holding elections under the Olympic Charter, before lifting the sanction in February 2013.

"In hosting the 2017 AIBA Commissions, the BFI has been able to show its progress and potential to more than 100 experts from the world of boxing, and I am grateful to AIBA President CK Wu for the opportunity and for embracing the Federation back into the AIBA family," Singh said.

"We are excited about the enormous potential for India’s boxing talent along this Olympic cycle to Tokyo and beyond, as we build a stronger future for the sport in this country."