How BCCI plans to help India develop Olympic talents – Firstpost

The Cricket Control Council in India (BCCI) would have come forward to help Olympic sports develop and develop in the country. It would seem that the richest cricket council in the world “to adopt two to three Olympic disciplines” in the ambitious plan of the Ministry of Sports to have centers of individual excellence supported by companies, whose work will start this year.

This was transmitted by the cricket body rich in cash at a meeting with the Minister of Sports Mansukh Mandaviya on Thursday. The rally also presented “representatives of 58 business houses”.

“Mr. Rajeev Shukla, who represented the BCCI at this meeting, said that the board of directors was willing to adopt two to three Olympic disciplines and that the ministry would leave it to decide what these disciplines would be,” said a source from the Ministry of Sports.

“The ministry welcomes this. Our plan is to build Olympic centers for each sport, which would lead to 100 to 200 of the best in the country, keeping in mind the current cycle and the next Olympic cycle.

“There were 58 companies at the meeting of today and all wanted to support this plan,” added the source.

Currently, India has 23 national centers of excellence operated by sports Authority of India (SAI). Among these, only three are monocyto-sports facilities dedicated to boxing (Rohtak), swimming (Delhi) and shooting (Delhi). The two largest NCOEs which are aimed at several sports are in Patiala and Bengaluru.

BCCI aims to develop Olympic talents

Mandaviya has repeatedly reiterated his commitment to the idea of ​​individual Olympic centers, claiming that inspiration came after observing the operation of training facilities in Japan, the United States and Australia.

The BCCI supported Olympic sports in the past by providing financial assistance to the National Sports Development Fund (RS 50 crosses in 2008) and the Indian Olympic Association (RS 8.5 crosses last year before the Paris Olympic Games).

The Board of Directors also granted RS Four believed in cash prices to the medals of the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021, including a crore with gold medalist Javelot Thrower Neeraj Chopra.

However, it would be the first time that the Board of Directors has been involved in shaping talents if the terms work.

An office official of BCCI Senior did not register on the details of Thursday’s meeting with Mandaviya, simply saying that “things would be communicated if something crystalline”.

With agency entries