Improving State of Sports - Inputs Sought

Recently you had shared your inputs to improve the State of Sports in India. Below are the solutions. In light of India's recent performance in Olympics, we seek some ideas from you that will leapfrog our country in this area. Please think how corporates can sponsor non cricket sports player, how CSR funds can be used for sports and how leakages in sports bodies can be reduced and infrastructure built. We look forward to your inputs!

Solutions from Citizens to improve State of Sports in India

1.The political influence and participation from the sports bodies should be completely eliminated
2.The sports bodies should only be headed by sportsmen who have played at national and international levels
3.Investments should be made on improving people’s interest in not-so-popular sports
4.National/international level athletes should be given free medical care
5.More sports injury rehabilitation centers should be opened in different parts of the country
6.Training facilities of international standards should be provided to our athletes
7.Investments should be made in taking the sports infrastructure to international levels
8. Parents should be counselled that their children can make a career in sports too
9. Good media coverage should be done around other sports except cricket to make them popular
10.National athletes should be given some monthly stipend to take care of their daily expenses
11.Coaches should be selected after a thorough test and they should be reviewed on a strict matrix bi-annually
12.Government should invest in opening quality sports academies with the vision of producing national/international level sports persons
13. All sports academies should have good hostel facilities for the students
14. Selection for teams should be completely based on performance
15.Government should tie up with private players to run sports education and training colleges
16. Sports bodies should be closely monitored by the Government
17.It should be made mandatory for the schools to have a playground
18.Special schemes should be announced by the Government for girls who want to pursue sports as a career option
19. All government schools should have good coaches for various sports like tennis, badminton hockey, kabbadi, football etc.
20.The gap between money allocations made by the Government and it actually reaching the sports persons should be reduced by implementing transparent processes and systems
21.Government should give scholarships to the achievers and support them with training, scholarship and medical assistance
22.The private sector should also follow the Government enterprises in offering jobs to sports persons
23. The Government could give tax exemption to private sector for investment in sports/games
24.The tenure of heading such bodies by a person, should be limited to maximum two years
25.A policy should be devised for grading of sports persons based on their annual performance during that year and a rank system is to be maintained at State, Central, International level against each sports discipline and they should be provided financial and training help basing on their rank. more