Tribal players won 184 medals in 2012
Tribal Welfare department has been providing facilities to the tribal students to perform better at the national level sport tournaments. It may be mentioned that during 2012, State’s tribal students had won 184 medals in national competitions. At present, there are 22 sports complexes in the State. The Government has provisioned Rs 174.56 crore for development and other facilities of these sports complexes during the 12th Five-Year-Plan.
As many as 14 sports complexes were in existence till year 2002-03. A sum of Rs 9.50 crore has been provisioned in departmental budget this year to promote sports activities. From these funds, assistance will be provided to 2200 players. The department is also providing facilities to players in sports complexes as per norms of SAI. A player is given Rs 21,000 on winning a national level competition, Rs 15,000 on finishing second and Rs 11,000 on standing third.