Sports Ministry launches ‘India Sports 2014’
New Delhi: The Sports Ministry and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) on Wednesday launched the ‘India Sports 2014’ at the 5th Global Sports Summit to promote sports amongst youth in the country.
The event would include an international exhibition on sports sector at the National Stadium, an international conference on sports sector, reverse buyer-seller meet by sports goods export promotion council, networking dinner and concurrent sports activities and tournaments.
Under the scheme, which has been taken up on a pilot basis, talents would be scouted and selected from the present Rajeev Gandhi Krida Abhiyan annual competitions. These sportspersons will be called Young Talent (YT) and they will be specially trained by Physical Education Teachers attached to every District Level Sports Center.
A District Sports School (DLSS) will be set up in every district in the country in the next ten years. He said that the Sports Ministry will supervise the training in sports and provide the sports scholarships and the recurring expenses.
