Sports in India Strategies in the 12th Five Year Plan

Introduction • India’s Youth Population ( 10-35 years) at 563 million

calls for a concerted efforts development of Sports & Games as a matter of physical fitness and also achieving excellence in sporting events.

• The mandate for the sector is to broad base sports and games through –

� participation of students in schools and higher education institutions, and

� achieve excellence in the national and international competitive sports to bring glory and pride to the nation.

National Sports Institutions

• The vision with regard to Sports & Games are pursued through various institutions under the Department of Sports:

i) Sports Authority of India (SAI)

ii) Netaji Subhash Institute of Sports, Patiala (NSIS)

iii) Laxmibai National College for Physical Education, Gwalior (LNCPE)

iv) National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA)

v) National Dope Test Laboratory (NDTL)

Recent Developments

• Successful conduct of CWG-2010 New Delhi, brought

- world class infrastructure,

- increase in medal tally from 50 in 2006 CWG to 101 and

- medals in swimming, gymnastics & athletics

• India increased its medal tally from 53 in 2006 Asian games to 64 in 2010 and from 3 in 2008 Olympics to 6 in 2012.

• Broad basing of sports, mass participation & creation of competition structure at Sub-state levels through PYKKA with coverage of 51759 villages (21%) and 1538 Blocks during 11th Plan.

Recent Developments – contd…

• Opening for development of school sports.

• Integration of physical education with school education.

• Increasing importance of National Games and funding of sports infrastructure by States.

• Formation of National Playfield Associations.

• Initiation of legislation for development of sporting bodies and support to sports person.

• Long Term Plan for Development of Talent in Olympic Sports through Schools.

Sports :Objectives of 12th Plan

• Restructuring Sports schemes.

• Broad basing of sports for achieving

excellence.

• A Composite Sarva Krida Abhiyan includes –

� Panchayat Yuva Khel aur Krida Abhiyan (PYKKA)

�National Physical Fitness Programme (NPFP)

�Support to Sports in Higher Education Institutions

�Support for Sports Infrastructure

New Schemes of 12th Plan

• National Institute of Sports Science

Medicine.

• National Institute of Sports Coaching,

Patiala

• Scheme of Sports Schools at District

level.

• Preparation of Teams for Mega Sports

Challenges

• Realization of full sporting potential of the

country.

• Identifying talent through grass-root

competition.

• Inadequate infrastructure for sports and .

low priority in funding Sports.

• Increasing female participation in Sports.

Action Plan: Interventions

• Developing School playgrounds by converging PYKKA with MGNREGA and State schemes.

• Opening up the playgrounds of NVs and KVs for neighborhood schools.

• Promoting School adoption by National/ International sports stars and corporate bodies.

• Developing a national sporting calendar to make sports an integral part of the annual calendar.

• Providing a full time sports teacher under RMSA and part-time sports instructor under SSA

Action Plan: Interventions – contd…

• Dovetailing Urban Sports Infrastructure Scheme (USIS) with

JNNURM.

• Establishing State Playing Fields Associations by State

Governments

• Taking necessary steps for preservation, protection and

development of playfields. • Enhancing award money for mega sporting

events/championships.

• Introducing a system of cash awards to personal coaches,

who have trained the champion athletes for a substantial

period.

Expected Outcomes

• Promotion of sports culture and creation of

atmosphere and facilities for achieving

excellence.

• Creating sports Infrastructure and other

requisite Institutional arrangements for

coaching, training, medical facilities etc.

• Establishing a network of district sports

centers and advanced training centers at the

regional level for nurturing sports talent.

Expected Outcome • Creating space for sports in overall economic activity

in the country by –

- Providing better employment opportunities and career progression to promising sportspersons,

- Commercializing and developing certain aspects of sports development and marketing to attract private sector participation and capital investment.

- Involvement of Corporate Sector in promotion of sports through their CSR.

- Preservation and conservation of open spaces/playfields for public.

Expected Outcome

• Long Term Plan for Development of Talent in Olympic Sports.

• Increase in the Olympic medal tally from 6 in 2012 to 20 in 2016 and 30 in 2020 and be in the first 10 countries.

• Raising the Asian Games medal tally from 64 in 2010 to 75 in 2014 and 100 in 2019 and be amongst first 3 countries.

Additional Information Other Priority Sectors chapter, 12th Five Year Plan (Chapter 19)

http://planningcommission.nic.in/plans/planrel/12thplan/vol_2.pdf

Planning Commission

http://planningcommission.nic.in/

http://www.facebook.com/PlanComIndia

Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports

http://yas.nic.in/

Sports Authority of India

http://sportsauthorityofindia.nic.in

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

http://mohf.nic.in/

Ministry of HRD

http://mhrd.gov.in