Sports Ministry announces HRD scheme in Sports

With the aim of developing human resources for the overall development of sports in the country, Sports Minister Jitendra Singh today announced a revised scheme called 'Human Resources Development in Sports'.
The scheme intends to award fellowships and scholarships, besides providing financial grants to a number of projects in order to develop one of the top 10 sporting nations in the country.
"The Government intends to give focus on developing human resources in sports sciences and sports medicine for the overall development of sports and games in the country," said Jitendra Singh.
"This will help the country be self reliant in these fields over a period of time in general and meet the requirements of the proposed National Institute of Sports Sciences and Medicines in particular," he added.

The scheme includes awarding fellowships for specialised studies at Masters' and Doctoral levels in the subjects like Biomechanics, Kinesiology, Anthropometry, Exercise Physiology, Sports Psychology, General theory and method of training, Sports Medicine, Sports Nutrition and Anti Doping.
It will also grant fellowships/scholarships to support personnel and match officials for specialised studies in the respective areas to sports specialists, coaches.
Top level universities/institutes, with world class facilities, have been identified for most of the subjects for the fellowship programme. The target is to give 10 such fellowships every year.