The Sports Ministry is set to include shuttlers Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa in the Target Olympic Podium, TOP scheme even as it extended support to national coach Pullela Gopichand, who was accused of bias by the top women's doubles pair. A Ministry official confirmed that Jwala and Ashwini will be included in the next list of TOP athletes. Ashwini had recently joined Jwala in criticism of Ministry and Gopichand, who is also in the TOP committee, for not including them in the scheme. The official insisted the Ministry would have included the two shuttlers even without the noise they made over their exclusion from the list. He also said that it was unbecoming of Jwala and Ashwini to level baseless allegations against Gopichand.