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The MAKA Trophy is the most prestigious award, which is presented to the Vice Chancellor and Director Sports of winning university by the Hon’ble President of India on the National Sports Day – 29th August, every year.įurther, the AIU organizes Vizzy Trophy Cricket (M) Tournament in collaboration with Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in which top 4 teams (one from each zone) are selected during zonal cricket tournaments, on the basis of outstanding performance of the players, every year. It also scrutinizes the self calculated claim (s) of contesting universities for the award of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy to be presented to the overall top performing university for promoting excellence in competitive sports. Sports Division, AIU also processes the release of financial assistance, if received from the Sports Ministry to the host universities for the successful conduct of National University Games, every year. At present, 206 sporting events are being organized on All India Basis and four zone basis for both men and women sections. It organizes National University Games and Special Coaching/advance Training camps for highly talented and selected athletes in collaboration with member universities, for participation of Indian Universities teams/contingent in National and International Sports Championships.
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Sports Division, partially funded by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, functions as Inter University Sports Board (AIU) for promotion of competitive sports in university sector which is full of sporting potential for excellence. It is, therefore, necessary that university youth of country needs to be brought together on a “National Platform” through the media of sports and physical activities with a view to channelize youthful energy into constructive directions, as a nation building process. Accordingly, active participation of University students in competitive sports generates a spirit of healthy competition in daily life too. “The contributions towards NSFs has also increased, just in infrastructure development there was slight reduction,” Mittal added.In University Education, Sports play an important role in the development of integrated personality of the youth including – Body, Mind and Spirit. Khelo India also got a boost of 72 per cent compared to 2019-2020. “From the revised figures also there is an increase of nearly 40 percent. We are not considering the initial budget of 2020-21 because it was an unprecedented year hit by COVID.” The government’s flagship Khelo India programme was handed the biggest reduction - of Rs 232.71 crore - among all sports heads for the 2021-22 budget, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday.ĭuring Wednesday’s event, Sports Secretary Ravi Mittal said, “If you look at the budget of 2021-22 as against 2019-2020 there is an increase of 19.13 percent.
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The sports ministry bears the cost of all foreign training and competition, including participation in the Olympics. Sports is a state subject and the sports ministry is there to provide support to state governments.” “Whatever is the requirement of athletes is always met, be it foreign training or hiring of overseas coaches. There will be no shortage of funds for players as and when they require. We are there to look after the requirement of athletes and demand of NSFs. Rijiju said, “The sports ministry is there to take care and support athletes and National Sports Federations (NSFs).
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This year’s allocated amount is Rs 795.99 crore more than the revised budget of 2020-21. In the last financial year, the government had allocated Rs 2826.92 crore for sports, which was later revised to Rs 1800.15 crore because of the lack of activity caused by the pandemic.