Cabinet Approval: 29 July 2023[1]
¶ Salient features
Olympic games winners will be given a cash reward of ₹3 crore, ₹2 crore and ₹1 crore respectively[2]
Focusing on diet, training and rehabilitation special centres for the players
¶ Building new sports infra[1:1]
Creating pyramidal sports infrastructure with new sports nurseries to centres of excellence
Village Level
- Playgrounds within 4 km of every home
Cluster level
1000 cluster level sports nurseries with coaching staff, sports equipment and refreshments to be established
- 25 Lakh per nursery i.e. budget of 250 crores
District Level
- District Level sports structure with sports hostels for 200 in each district
- 250 crores budgeted for this
i.e. Total capacity of 5000 players at District Level across the state
¶ Direct Govt jobs for players[1:2]
- Sports achievements will be given 30 percent priority for recruitment of coaches and PTI teachers
Provision of additional 500 posts in Special Cadre for best medal winning players:
-- 40 Deputy Directors
-- 92 Senior Coaches, 138 Coaches & 230 Junior Coaches
¶ Financial assistance for preparation[2:1]
Announcing monetary aid for the first time for preparation for all listed international sports competitions
- Hayer said ₹15 lakh will be given for the Olympics and Paralympics
¶ New Coaches recruitment[1:3]
Currently only 309 coaches in Punjab as compared to 2017 coaches in Haryana
2360 more coaches to be recuited
¶ Cash Awards for Winners[2:2]
Number of such cash prize winners has been increased from 25 to 80 by expansion in list of eligible tounaments
This list now additionally includes
- Special Olympics, Deaf Olympics, Para world games
- Badminton’s Thomas Cup, Uber Cup, BWF World Tour Finals
- Tennis Grand Slams
- Azlan Shah Hockey Cup
- Diamond League and recognised tournaments of internationally reputed organisations
- Deaf World Cup, blind World Cup
- Youth Olympic Games
¶ Sports Grading[1:4]
- The gradation list of 35 sports
- In addition, there will also be grading of sports included in the Olympic, Asian and and Commonwealth Games
- Arrangements will be made to give the gradation certificate online
¶ Transparency[1:5]
- New rules will be introduced to bring transparency and fairness in the selection of players under which expert coaches will be appointed as supervisors
- A website will be created for the profile of the players
- A dedicated YouTube channel will be started for live broadcasting of sports competitions
¶ Awards for coaches & sports promoters[3]
- This will include a prize money of Rs 5 lakh, a trophy and a blazer
-- Olympian Balbir Singh Senior Coach Award for coaches
-- Milkha Singh Award for private organisations / personalities working for the promotion of sports
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