28/08/2019 - Government Policies

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KEY POINTS

Sports infrastructure plays a crucial role in achieving excellence in the global arena of sports.

It not only helps in producing sports persons of international repute, but also encourages the young population of a country to participate in sporting activities with the objective of creating a culturing of sports.

Major initiatives

·        Scheme of Grants for Creation of Sports Infrastructure including Rural Schools, for which INR 942.5 million was allocated

·        Scheme of Grants for Installing of Synthetic Playing Surfaces, for which INR 201.3 million was allocated

·        Scheme of Grants for Promotion of Games and Sports in Universities and Colleges, for which INR 328 million was allocated

·        Scheme of assistance for the creation of Urban Sports infrastructure.

Flaws in sports infrastructure

·        The lack of infrastructural facilities is one of the major constraints in the process of development of sports in India.   

·        According to the Constitution of India, sport is a State subject. The state governments allocate funds for the development of sports and sports infrastructure as per their priority.

·        There is no comprehensive approach for the development of sports infrastructure uniformly throughout the country.

·        The support from the central government was substantially withdrawn with the shift of the schemes, related to sports infrastructure, to the states in the Tenth Five Year Plan. This has created further problem.

·        The non-availability of land for building sports infrastructure is another major obstacle. Moreover, not much initiative has been observed till now in promoting sports-specific infrastructure by adopting PPP model to ensure the sustainability of these facilities.

·        The commercial aspects for generating revenue from these infrastructural facilities have not yet been explored properly.

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