Very enthusiastic about Khelo India Games turning into a robust pillar of Indian sports, Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya stated that there would be 14 various forms of Khelo India Games during the season.
New Categories and Permanent Venues Announced by Khelo India
Speaking with the media on Friday, the Minister stated that there would be Khelo India Tribal Games, beach games, martial arts games, water games etc.
There may be permanent locations for a few of the Khelo India Games, with a complete calendar, so that everyone can prepare well and arrange their logistics.
Digitised Athlete Data and World-Class Training in Khelo India
With the digitisation of everything to do with the athletes and their performances, the Minister emphasized that there would be a huge list of several thousand athletes who would be given further training in world-class facilities to enable them to reach international standards.
“Rather than taking our sportspersons overseas, which is more or less done in order to secure the sports science support, we will condition our sportspersons at home with the most qualified experts. Already there exist such centers within the country,” said the Minister, highlighting the need for the country to have a number of such centers around the country for tuning the athletes on a routine basis, across various disciplines.
Corporate Support and Professional Sports Management
With the corporate world being assigned to sponsor one game each, the government is assured that it would result in professional management of sport, ensuring accountability, transparency and effective governance of sport by the different national sport federations.
The Minister believed that no shortage of the power of sport existed in the nation, but what was necessary was a very strong system that could divert resources passing through an input line and getting transformed into spectacular output in the form of international medals.
