Development of world-class infrastructure for sports has gained desired momentum
In the last one year, the development of world-class infrastructure for sports has gained desired momentum in Madhya Pradesh. Also, the State has been successful in maintaining its presence in the first and second place in the medal tally of various sports. The model of the State sports academies of Madhya Pradesh has been praised by States like Andaman and Nicobar, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Assam, Goa and Orissa.
All these States are also trying to implement the model of Madhya Pradesh Academy either partially or fully. Now, the State Government has decided to implement a plan to make sports courses mandatory in order to establish a new sports policy and importance of sports to promote sports talent of the State.
Players of the State will now get the benefit of medical and accident insurance. Madhya Pradesh has now become the first State in the country to provide insurance to sportspersons.
In the first phase, about 822 players of various sports academies are being given the benefit of insurance. With medical insurance, players can get their treatment in any of the selected hospitals in the country. For this, they have been provided free treatment facility up to Rs 2 lakh. Life insurance of Rs 5 lakh has also been done for the players. Also, the parents of economically weaker players are also included in the life insurance.
Through insurance, cashless treatment facility will be available to players all over the country.
The process of providing cashless facility of medical and accident insurance is also going on to the sportspersons of the State who are officially participating in the national competition.
For this, sports association concerned will have to provide a certified list of the national level players. The player will get the facility after registration.
There is provision in the proposed new sports policy to provide 5 percent reservation to sportspersons in Government jobs.
For the first time in the State, an incentive amount has been fixed for the players who have received medals in Olympics, World Cup, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games and South Asian Games. There is provision of incentive of Rs 2 crore for winning gold medal at international level, Rs 1 crore for silver medal and Rs 50 lakh for achieving bronze medal.
Apart from this, any player who has participated in international games and has not taken a medal, will still be given an amount of Rs 10 lakh as an incentive.
In the National Sports and National Championships, medal winners will be given Rs 5 lakh for winning the gold medal, Rs 3 lakh 20 thousand for silver and Rs 2 lakh 40 thousand for winning bronze medal. Similarly, the player who has won the gold medal in the authorised national championships will be given Rs 1lakh for winning gold medal, Rs 75,000 for silver medal and Rs 50,000 on winning bronze medal. During the competition, a maximum amount of Rs 5 lakh will be given to the players for purchasing and hiring equipment.
It has also been decided that a maximum amount of Rs 5 lakh will be given to the players for high level international / national technical coaching. The State Government has also decided that the coaches, under whose supervision the player is successful in making his mark, will also be given incentives. In this context, on receiving medals in International / National Championships and National Sports, ten percent of the amount payable to the players will be given to the coaches as incentive.
The role of sports science is important for high level performance at the global level. The sports science support team helps all the players who are currently doing well in international events like Olympics, Asian Games and Common Wealth Games.
The State’s players are giving excellent performance at the national level, but for high level performance at the international level, sports psychologists, sports nutritionists, sports physiologists, physiotherapists, bio-mechanical experts, video analysts, exercise science experts, fitness trainers are very much needed. Therefore, the State Government has decided to make recruitments on these posts as well.