{"id":223,"date":"2022-03-19T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialforaction.com\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2022-05-22T16:27:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T16:27:57","slug":"sports-development-in-india-the-grassroots-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialforaction.com\/blog\/sports-development-in-india-the-grassroots-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports development in India: The grassroots problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #222222;color:#222222\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #222222;color:#222222\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialforaction.com\/blog\/sports-development-in-india-the-grassroots-problem\/#lack-of-clarity-around-key-issues\" title=\"Lack of clarity around key issues\">Lack of clarity around key issues<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialforaction.com\/blog\/sports-development-in-india-the-grassroots-problem\/#underutilisation-of-resources\" title=\"Underutilisation of resources\">Underutilisation of resources<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialforaction.com\/blog\/sports-development-in-india-the-grassroots-problem\/#a-new-model-of-governance\" title=\"A new model of governance\">A new model of governance<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<p>India\u2019s abysmally poor performance at the Olympics is nothing new. India has consistently failed to foster players with a competitive edge in any sport other than cricket. Even a large amount of public and private investment in sports has failed to produce substantial results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These failures are often attributed to the model of sports governance in India. Allegations of nepotism, fiefdom, unaccountability and financial irregularities give credence to such views. But in the recent past, it seems, the Indian state has started taking a keen interest in sports. Funding has increasing for programmes such as the Khelo India Games, which saw a hike of Rs 312.42 crore (about $46 million), from a revised amount of Rs 578 crore (about $78 million) in 2019-20 to Rs 890.42 crore (about $120 million). However, it remains to be seen if the increase in the budgetary allocation will galvanise any significant change at the ground level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Constitutionally, sports form a part of Entry 33 of the State List, under Article 246 of the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India. Sports is clubbed together with entertainment, cinematic performances and amusement. There is also no specific enactment for the entire country. Constitutionally, sport is a state subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2011 the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, notified the National Sports Development Code of India 2011. This code superseded all notifications and instructions by the Government of India pertaining to good governance of the National Sports Federations. What is not certain is whether the National Sports Federations comply with the conditions of the code. Various high courts and the Supreme Court, though, have upheld the binding nature of the provisions of the Code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"lack-of-clarity-around-key-issues\"><\/span>Lack of clarity around key issues<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Government of India\u2019s attempt to promote sports and fitness has led to many changes, at least at the policy level, in the last five years. These changes also seem to have created duplications in policy; both the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyaan and Fit India Movement are called upon to provide sports equipment to government schools and ensure maintenance. This raises questions about whether schools will get funding from both these programmes and about who these schools will be accountable to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) now seems to have superseded Khelo India School Games (KISG), but what this means has not been clearly articulated. Does it include both schools and universities under one umbrella or will there be one set of Khelo India games for the schools and one set for the universities each year?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also unclear what the objective of these programmes is, considering that the experts endowed with the responsibility to conceive, articulate and implement the policy have conflicting views on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some experts advocate inculcating a sports culture minus the competitive aspect, others desire excellence in sports, and then there are also those who want to include traditional and regional sports within the ambit of sports. There also seems to be less clarity on the differences between sports for excellence and sports as a pastime or a hobby or a leisure activity or just for fitness. Then, some have been talking about physical education (PE) being part of the school curriculum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Khelo India programme talks about \u201creviving India\u2019s sports culture at the grass-root level by building a strong framework for all sports played in our country and establishing India as a great sporting nation\u201d. The Fit India Movement mentions that the schools are also allowed to include their traditional and regional games. Does this mean the schools will have three sets of designated periods during school hours: one for physical education, one for sports that will lead to the participants striving towards fulfilling Khelo India objectives, and one for maintaining fitness that could include traditional and regional games?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the governance level, corruption, lack of transparency and unclear demarcation of rights and responsibilities have created an environment of confusion and malpractice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"underutilisation-of-resources\"><\/span>Underutilisation of resources<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Many experts, at both the national and international levels, feel that if India wants to become a sporting nation, the country will have to invest heavily in building a modern infrastructure and a robust grassroots system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 2020-21 budget, the Government of India allocated Rs 2826.92 crore (about $380 million) for sports, which represented an increase of Rs 50 crore (about $6.75 million) from the revised estimates of 2019-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A major part of the allocation was directed at the Union government\u2019s current favorite, Khelo India Games, which saw a hike of Rs 312.42 crore (about $46 million), from a revised amount of Rs 578 crore (about $78 million) in 2019-20 to Rs 890.42 crore (about $120 million). Conversely, the National Sports Development Fund saw a reduction from Rs 77.15 crore (about $10.4 million) in 2019-20 to Rs 50 crore (about $6.75 million) in 2020-21. Even the budgetary support for meritorious sportspersons was reduced by almost 40% from the previous financial year. And mind you, 2020 was supposed to have been the year of the Tokyo Olympics. When the 2020-21 budget was presented, we were still in a business-as-usual mode, blissfully ignorant about the devastation that would soon befall on the world!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commercially, the market size of the sports industry in India was over Rs 91 billion (about $1.2 billion) in 2019. The majority of media consumption of sports in the country could be attributed to the Indian Premier League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as a comparison, let us see what China has been doing to promote sports. A few years ago, Forbes reported that \u201cthe Chinese government plans to build an US$ 813 billion sports industry by 2025, where most of the sports industry\u2019s growth is directly tied to government intervention.\u201d The same article reported that \u201cPresident Jinping wants to see the construction of 70,000 new soccer pitches by 2020.\u201d But then the Chinese are known to overstate, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"a-new-model-of-governance\"><\/span>A new model of governance<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Needless to say, the current model of governance of Indian sports clearly lacks accountability and transparency, which creates an environment that is conducive to wide-scale corruption, threatening a tournament\u2019s overall credibility. Even India\u2019s most profitable sports league, the IPL, despite being one of the better-managed Indian professional leagues, has been embroiled in controversy in the recent past. Hence, unless mechanisms are brought in place to govern the huge sums of money and the interests of various stakeholders, such tournaments will always run the risk of losing credibility, negatively impacting the future of its players and stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having said that, several civil society organisations are now stepping up to the challenge of transforming India into a sporting nation by equipping children at the grassroots level with the means to dream big.&nbsp; By incorporating sports into children\u2019s daily lives, they are not only seeking to boost their confidence, self-image and personality, but also open the gateway to a possible career in sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sports form an important pillar of India\u2019s holistic growth. Hence, the foundations of this integral sector cannot be subpar. In order to place India firmly on the path to sports supremacy, due consideration must be given by ecosystem stakeholders to the state of sports infrastructure in India and the different hurdles that hinder its development. The designation and usage of SSZs will go a long way towards ensuring a dedicated approach to infrastructure development by addressing some of the key challenges facing the industry today. By incorporating infrastructure planning in sports initiatives, encouraging and easing the path to PPPs, and investing in technological upgrades to sports facilities, the sports sector in India can be equipped with the capacity and resources needed to achieve national long-term objectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Integrating community sports infrastructure in city planning<\/li><li>Creation of SSZs<\/li><li>Dedicated upgrade and maintenance of sports facilities in urban and rural areas<\/li><li>Ease of formation of PPPs for the creation and development of sports facilities<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Show your support by donating to Anand Sahiksahnik Samajik Sevabhavi Sanstha for building Sports Infrastructure for Rural Children in Kolhapur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/socialforaction.com\/campaign\/21\/sports-infrastructure-for-rural-children\">https:\/\/socialforaction.com\/campaign\/21\/sports-infrastructure-for-rural-children<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s abysmally poor performance at the Olympics is nothing new. 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