The elevated budgetary allocation for the monetary yr 2023-24 by the sports activities ministry needs to be “substantially” and “judiciously” used for coaching athletes for the Asian Games this yr and the 2024 Olympics, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Youth Affairs and Sports has stated. The committee has stated.
The authorities has elevated the budgetary allocation to the sports activities ministry by 22.08 per cent for 2023-24 as in comparison with the revised estimate allocation of the earlier monetary yr, primarily because of the upcoming two mega multi-discipline programmes.
The committee in its report stated that, “The main share of the overall budgetary allocation within the BE (Budget Estimate) 2023-24 of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports is for the Department of Sports, i.e. 72.49%, whereas it’s 27.51%. % for the Department of Youth Affairs.
“The Committee, therefore, recommends that this increase in funds be adequately and judiciously utilized by the Department for the training of sportspersons participating in the Asian Games at Hangzhou in China, the upcoming Paris Olympic Games and the Para Olympics in 2024 should go.” The panel additionally stated that with the budgetary parts of the Khelo India program and the Sports Authority of India (SAI) forming a big a part of the overall funds of the sports activities division, it was vital to have a separate ‘demand head’ for higher administrative management and determination making.
Khelo India has been allotted Rs. 1,000 crore and SAI Rs. A complete quantity of Rs 785.52 crore at BE stage for the present monetary yr. 1785.52 cr.
The two parts account for 72.50% of the overall budgetary allocation of Rs. 2462.59 crore to the Sports Department.
“The Committee is of the opinion that there’s a want for a separate demand head for higher implementation of the programmes/schemes of the Department of Sports with higher administrative management and determination making on these points.
“In this way it can better present its achievements before the Finance Ministry for increasing the allocation of the budget in future. The committee recommends that the sports department should take up with the finance ministry to create a separate demand head for the same,” beneficial the panel.
The committee additionally beneficial that the sports activities division ought to additional strengthen its monitoring mechanism “so as to ensure beneficial and optimum utilization of funds”.
The panel beneficial prioritization and utilization of funds in flagship schemes like Khelo India and Sports University within the North East area and in addition eliminated bottlenecks in utilization of funds. It famous that Khelo India is likely one of the most vital schemes to advertise sports activities within the nation and efforts needs to be made to broaden its horizons, including that the panel was apprised of the infrastructure growth for the 2 tasks. Should be carried out.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
