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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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