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Delhi government donates Rs 7.48 Crore financial assistance to 307 athletes
Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia urged the sportspersons from Delhi to achieve big and make Delhi and the entire India proud. In a program organised at the Chhatrasal Stadium, he distributed cheques worth INR 7.48 crore as financial assistance to 307 sportspersons.
Deputy CM Sisodia said that Delhi government is ensuring world-class training as well as nutritional requirements of the young sportspersons. He said, “Sports play a crucial role in education. On one hand, Delhi has been at the top position in School Games for last three years. On the other hand, it is receiving accolades for its improved education system. NITI Aayog, a central government agency, ranked Delhi government schools the highest in the country. This is a proud achievement for Delhi.”
Sisodia also said, “Other governments pay attention to their sportspersons only after they win medals. But, Delhi government is helping the sportspersons during their struggle phase and enabling them to win medals by providing all possible assistance.” Sisodia said that under Delhi government’s Play and Progress scheme, financial assistance of INR 2 lakh for under 14 category and Rs 3 lakh for under-17 category is provided. Delhi government assists upto INR 16 lakhs to talented sportspersons from Delhi.
Congratulations Deputy CM @msisodia on distributing cheques worth Rs7.48 crore as financial assistance to 307 sportspersons and fulfilling CM @ArvindKejriwal ‘s dream that every student plays at least 1 sport & every talented sportsperson gets all kind of Govt assistance to excel pic.twitter.com/xYe4jjr98X
— Rahul Mehra (@TheRahulMehra) January 21, 2021
He said that it is Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s dream to that every student plays at least one sport, and every talented sportsperson gets all kinds of assistance from the government to excel. That is why the Delhi government is running different schemes to promote sports and prepare sportspersons to win medals.
Sports branch at the Directorate of Education, Government of NCT of Delhi has taken several steps to promote sports at the grassroots level to achieve holistic development of students. Delhi is on the top of the medal tally in the National School Games in its 2019-20 edition, bagging close to 1000 medals. Delhi players have also won 39 gold, 36 silver and 47 bronze medals in the third edition of Khelo India Youth Games-2020. Different schemes like Play and Progress, Mission Excellence and Cash incentive to the medal-winning sportspersons provide financial assistance to the sports talents from a young age.
In Delhi, there are 17 operational swimming pools under the Sports branch and eight are under construction. There are many synthetic athletic tracks, synthetic hockey turfs, archery fields, and other sports facilities that are already operational. Two sports hostels with training facilities have also been sanctioned at the cost of approximately 100 crores.
The function was attended by Olympic medalist Sushil Kumar along with Secretary Education H Rajesh Prasad, Director Education Udit Prakash Rai and sports nutritionist Ruchika Sodhi.
