India's number one squash player Joshna Chinappa wrote a letter to the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs that she never trained under Poncha, and that he had misused her name to get the Dronacharya Award.

In 2008, the SRFI chose a woman's squad for the Asian Championships without Dipika Pallikal, who was then training in Egypt, after having recently won the U-17 British Junior Open.

The various activities conducted by the SRFI during the year include: In December 2012, squash player Dipika Pallikal Karthik achieved a career-best rank of 10.

In December 2014, Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinappa defeated Jenny Duncalf and Laura Massaro to claim India's first-ever gold medal in squash at the Commonwealth Games.

[12] At 2015, Velavan Senthilkumar won a bronze medal in the boys singles event in squash at the 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games held in Samoa.

In June 2015, Debendranath Sarangi and K Rajendiran were elected unopposed as president and secretary-general respectively of the Squash Rackets Federation of India at its Extraordinary General Meeting.

In February 2017, Debendranath Sarangi was elected as the vice-president of the Asia Squash Federation with a two-thirds majority at the 37th ASF Annual General Meeting.