PIB. Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Singh Thakur today interacted with the Sports Ministers of all the states and union territories of the country through virtual medium. Following the huge success of the Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo, today’s meeting will prepare a roadmap for preparing our athletes keeping in mind the future Olympics, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games and the contribution of the states in promoting sports at the grassroots level. was held for consideration. During the virtual meeting, Secretary, Sports Department, Ravi Mittal was also present.
During the discussion, Union Minister Anurag Singh Thakur asked the States and Union Territories to send their views on creating a common pool of cash prizes for athletes where both the Central and State Governments can pool together funds. Players of all the states should get equal benefits on winning medals. Sports is a state subject and the overall objective of this interaction is to urge the states to play an important role in organizing sports competitions in rural and urban areas for physically able and para-athletes as well as in identification of talent at the grassroots level. Had to do. Promoting school level sports and supporting the School Games Federation of India (SGFI) was another major point of discussion.
Anurag Thakur after the meeting said that today’s meeting was very fruitful and we will come together to assess the progress and discuss ways to better infrastructure and manage more number of trainers, trainers and physiotherapists in the year. Have agreed to meet at least twice. Shri Thakur said that we will hold regional meetings in different zones. Apart from this, we are also looking at creating a dashboard where data related to sports infrastructure available in every state, district and block will be available. This dashboard will give all the relevant information about how many coaches are available, what kind of sports will be played in those indoor stadiums or outdoor games etc and all these details will be available at the press of a button. Let us tell you that the above information has been published by PIB in the press release.
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