Sports and Youth Welfare Minister Yashodhara Raje Scindia has expressed gratitude towards Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for sanctioning 3 new sports academies in the State. She said that the New Year has brought a major gift for players. With opening of academies of athletics, football and aquatic and triathlon, players will get high level coaching and day boarding facility.
The Minister said that purpose of setting up Athletics Academy at Bhopal is because the international level athletics track is available at Tatya Tope sports complex. Its structure will be used effectively upto maximum. Apart from free coaching, players will have lodging, supplementary diet, sports kit, competition exposure, medical and insurance and coaching fee also. Its estimated cost would be Rs532.74 lakh.
Scindia informed that at Madhya Pradesh Aquatic and Triathlon Academy boys and girls from rural areas will be imparted coaching of swimming with modern method. It would be set up at Narmada College of Physical Education, Hoshangabad.
Players will be provided free lodging and nutritious diets at the academy. Target has been set to impart training to 50 players in year 2015-16 and 75 in 2016-17. This is estimated to entail Rs482.45 crore expenditure.
Minister Scindia informed that the state has a number of talented football players. Its coaching needs to imparted through modern methods. The Academy would be set up at stadium built on 10.20 acres at Cantonment Board, Mhow in Indore. Training would be imparted to 40 players.