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8/17/2019 A Letter to Indian Sports Ministry
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To Sports Ministry,
India is a diverse country. Be it religion, food, dressing, folk culture, language
and what not. But when it comes to sports, this diversity seems to vanish. All of
the focus seems to be on cricket. I am not of opinion that cricket should not be
supported, it is just that there are other games which are being totally ignored
while cricket is getting funding like crazy.
Lets start with our national game, hockey. !e have had legends like "hayan
#hand and "hanraj $illay in our country. !e won % &lympic golds in this
game. But presently, India has almost completely vanished from the face of
international hockey. 'he players dont get proper training facilities, nor are
they given proper incentives. 'heir packages seem nil in comparison to what the
cricket players get. 'his is sad keeping in mind that we still have the potential to
be the best.
(ame is the scenario with other games, while in some it is even worse. $layers
of international status train in broken down shackles while the cricketers get to
stay at five stars wherever they go. 'heir pay)che*ues are always delayed while
the cricketers are paid in lakhs per month. +ven what they get is barely
sufficient to give themselves and their families a basic living standard.
It is now high time that something is done about all this. Its sad when a countrylike ours which has the potential to be the best in every game there is, but isnt
able to do so because of pity reasons like these. 'he solution to all this are pretty
simple if you guys put your foot down and work towards achieving this. irst
step would be to make B##I a part a subsidiary of the (ports -inistry so that
the corruption allegations can be looked into. (urplus funds from this same
department can be transferred to other departments so that their condition can be
improved. A sports comple in every state and one national sports comple with
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all latest facilities should be opened. (ports scholarships should be given to
students who perform well in sports. A system should be implemented under
which all district level sportsmen should be transferred to hostels which should
be a part of the sports comple present in each state. 'here, they can be trained
and groomed properly and efficiently. 'heir education should be made free so
that parents are not discouraged to let their children chose a career in sports. A
revised pay package in accordance to the level they play on /state, national and
international0 should be implemented and should be similar for all sports.
Lastly, to cover the maimum number of people, a district level sports
competition should be organised nationwide so that no one is left out.
I hope that you take my suggestions seriously and work on the same so that one
day our country can also be on the top of the medal tally in &lympics along with
ecelling in all sports internationally.
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By
Abhinav Bhatia
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7 BBA /9A0 :A"epartment of $rofessional (tudies
#hrist ;niversity, Bengaluru.
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