Government releases 20-point action plan for sports

The National Institution for Transforming India or NITI Aayog on Wednesday announced an action plan named Let's Play - Action Plan for Revitalising Sports in India with the aim to target 50 Olympic medals in the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.

The 20-point plan highlights some key areas that require improvement. These action points have been divided into a short term vision (4 to 8 years) and a medium to long term vision (8 to 15 years), according to its official website.

Announcing the initiative, NITI Aayog tweeted: "NITI Aayog to release 'Let's Play' - An Action Plan for Revitalising Sports in India. Our target: 50 Olympic Medals!"

"We are a large and diverse nation. Sports can be a great means of national integration" PM Narendra Modi said on NITI Aayog's website.

The points include targeting a group of priority sports, organisation of sportspersons into three groups for each priority sport, harnessing the potential of indigenous and regional sports, world class coaches and a grading system for coaches.

Special emphasis will be given to implement the National Sports Code and Sports Bill, to formulate an injury insurance scheme, strengthening and scaling-up of existing Sports Authority of India (SAI) training centres and facilitating creation of sports academies for individual sports among others.

--IANS

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