In a bid to promote sports in the State, Haryana Government on Tuesday announced a number of decisions including framing of Sports Development Act, recruitment of 500 coaches, introduction of bio-metric attendance for players and employees of Sports Department.
The State Government has also announced to put a ban on the use of Government sports complexes by the private persons or private organisations. Haryana Sports and Youth Affairs Minister, Anil Vij while presiding over a meeting with District Sports Officers here said that the government would soon enact Sports Development Act in order to check unauthorised sports academies.
He also directed all district officers to identify sports persons living anonymous lives in their districts and prepare a list of them. The move comes following the story of Haryana based gold medal winning boxer Rishu Mittal who was pushed to work as a domestic maid to support her livelihood.
The Minister said that now attendance of all players and employees of Sports Department would be marked through biometric system so as to track their every activity from Chandigarh only.
He said that it has come to the notice that various sports complexes in the State were being used by private sports academies for sports activities and they were charging huge amount of money in the form of fee from children.
Vij said that international level sports stadia equipped with latest facilities would be set up in the State. Apart from this, stadia would be set up in every district of the State to provide latest sports facilities.
While laying emphasis on promotion of water sports and wushu, he said that players of the state have capability to win medals in these games. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention towards them, he added.
The Minister said that soon 500 coaches would be recruited for all sports complexes in the State. The State Government would honour those schools, colleges and other private educational institutes which would provide better sports facilities, he said.
He also announced that soon 'Yuva Niti' would be formulated to inspire about 75 lakh youth of the state towards creative works so that youth may channelise their energy in right direction.