The Sports Authority of India has announced the launch of the School Sports Promotion Foundation to tap the sporting talent at the school level itself. The foundation will organize sports tournaments across India to identify talent, arrange to nurture it and take them through the city, district, state, zonal and national level of competitive sport.
The foundation will arrange to provide sports coaching to those talented youth who are identified through these tournaments at all levels. In the initial phase, School Sports Promotion Foundation will roll out Football and Cricket. Other sports like Tennis, Basketball and Athletics will be introduced after one year.
The Sports Promotion Foundation hopes to reach out to around 1,00,000 secondary and senior secondary schools irrespective of their ownership, economic or social strata they operate in or the board they are affiliated to. In the next phase, rural, sub-urban elementary schools with a strong focus on rural sports would be included in the programme.
Sports Authority of India
- The Sports Authority of India (SAI) is a body set up by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
- It was created in 1984 to help promote sport throughout the country, with its headquarters at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Complex, New Delhi.
- It has seven regional centres at Bangalore, Bhopal, Gandhinagar, Kolkata, Sonepat, Delhi,Mumbai and Imphal.
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