To boost India’s prospects in future Olympics, Union Sports Ministry has formulated a multi-pronged strategy which includes a portal for promising sports persons, top level committee to select promising players and a task force to prepare a comprehensive Action Plan.
inaugurating the first Deen Dayal Upadhaya All India National Style Kabaddi Championship 2017 at Motilal Nehru Sports School at Rai, Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sport Vijay Goel said the Government is already making arrangements to search and train promising sportsperson.
Therefore, a ‘Sports Talent Search Portal’ would be launched and any sportsperson would be able to upload his video, photo and biodata. After the selection of promising sportspersons, the Government would provide scholarships of Rs five lakh per year to each such player for eight years.
Goel said that a top level committee has also been constituted to select the budding players for Tokyo Olympics, and suggest for sports facilities, training and other related matters. A Task force has also been set up to prepare a comprehensive action plan for effective participation of players in the next three Olympics in year 2020 in Tokyo, 2024 and 2028.