Indian government is often criticised for not doing good work related to sports and it's development.
The performance of ours is very much scrutinized and compared with other countries.
The medals won by the atheletes from the smaller countries also enhances the heat !
Government's role!
Ministery of youth affairs and sports started its flagship programme, TOPS (Target Olympic Podium Scheme).
It was done along with Sports Authority of India.
The main objective was to scrutinize and select players for the Olympics preperation.
The atheletes are provided more better facilities to train and improve.
They will be provided enhanced facilities for the holistic development.
This was started in 2014 with an objective to perform well in 2016 and 20 Olympics!
60 crores were allocated for the atheletes under the TOPS training.
More than 5 crores were spent on shooters before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Sports authority of India takes over the role of guardian before every tournament, though the atheletes are never barred from using it's facilities but before every major tournament the role becomes more aggressive.
There is no doubt that the facility provided is top notch and players can train without fearing much.
The funding is completely by the government and everything is taken care of!
The results of Tokyo Olympics were suprising as we couldn't get one medal even after having the top ranked shooters on our side!
Here, the role of federations comes in to the play! In
Due to the vast structure and multiple sports, the government can't do holistic development.
That's why federations are set up to manage the things and improve the whole structure.
The federations are bound to provide coaching facilities, training facilities and regular testing facilities.
But it is not happening.
Also federations are more involved in other conflicts.
The table tennis federation debacle with Monika Batra is not hidden from anyone.
The Rifle federation and it's fault in not resolving the issue between the players and the coaches costed us 4-5 medals.
It hampers the performance which was quite visible.
Indian football federation and long standing issues are visible too.
Baring few federations, conflicts are in every federation. The more time is spent in resolving those issues, politics thus sports development gets sidelined.
The selection of players, partiality and charges of corruption are often keeps surfacing.
Indian Olympic Committee and conflict with the ministry was very visible.
Previous minister said publicly that many federations in India doesn't work and also add only to the liabilities.
Reasons of such things!
Interference of politicians, guaranteed money and manipulation.
The politicians see this opportunity to make money, many of them doesn't really work from the office premises.
The time spent in political functions is more.
The lack of proper constitution only adds to the misery.
Technical committees and their failures to address the issues within the system.
The problems are not new but there is a change visible in many federations.
Hockey India, is one of them.
The regular camps, medical care and proper coach selection have improved.
Earlier players used to complain about the basic entities now they are getting good support and the players responded well in the Olympics.
While many federations are in contradictory positions everyday.
Recent is the AIFF, with 3-4 state federations accusing it of sabotage, insult.
The Santosh Trophy organization was done by AIFF with out involving the state football federation.
Similarly complaints from the J&K football federation.
Corruption and fixing in Goa pro league is also there.
Required change !
When overall funding is increasing, federations are getting due share then why results are not coming in favour.
The reason is politics, misuse of funds, limited power of the government and poor working of the Federations.
Take an example of Khelo University Games, Khelo India games.
The talent can be easily taken in to the context and can be provided better facilities.
But delay in approaching and management forces many atheletes to look for other options.
Many stop playing once they get a good state job or hopelessness of anything pushes them down.
Thus the duty of those 64 federations is to work proactively and improve the condition of sports.
With 2.5 thousand crore, enough can be done only if it is done with good objective.
The good results will only push government to spend more in the coming years.
Thus improving the structure of sports set-up in India.
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