Not happy with asian Games, CWG preparations: Minister
Sports minister Jitendra Singh on Tuesday expressed dissatisfaction over India’s preparations for the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow and the Asian Games at Incheon, Korea, in a meeting with Sports Authority of India officials here.
“Sports minister Jitendra Singh held a meeting with officers of SAI to review preparation for the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games and was unhappy with the fact that only a handful of National Sports Federations had given a detailed training programme for the probable medal winners identified for the games,” the ministry said here.
Singh gave several directions to SAI officials, including the setting up of a steering committee headed by sports secretary P.K. Deb to oversee preparations.
“It was also decided that top-up training needs of individual sportsperson would be identified and be funded from the NSDF,” it added.
The minister also sought an estimate of training expenses of the athletes.
“The main expenditure of training of sportsperson would be from the plan head — assistance to NSFs. Director-general of SAI was asked to provide estimates of expenditure to that suitable provisions could be made for training of sportspersons,” the ministry said.
Singh also expressed displeasure at the exclusion of sports such as archery and wrestling from the CWG as it would impact India’s medal haul.
“India would stand to lose at least 30 medals in the next Commonwealth Games due to the exclusion of sports disciplines like archery, Greco Roman wrestling, team events in shooting, etc,” he said.
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