Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: March 28, 2023, 18:08 IST
Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Youth Affairs and Sports really helpful that the sports activities division ought to additional strengthen its monitoring mechanism “so that gainful and optimum utilisation of funds is ensured”
The elevated budgetary allocation for the monetary yr 2023-24 needs to be utilised “adequately” and “judiciously” by the sports activities ministry for the coaching of athletes for the Asian Games this yr and 2024 Olympics, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Youth Affairs and Sports has stated.
The authorities has enhanced the budgetary allocation to the sports activities ministry for 2023-24 by 22.08 p.c as in comparison with the revised estimate allocation for the earlier monetary yr, primarily as a result of of the upcoming two mega multi-discipline occasions.
In its report, the committee noticed that, “the foremost share of the full budgetary allocation in BE (price range estimates) 2023-24 of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports is for the Department of Sports, i.e. 72.49%, whereas it’s 27.51% for the Department of Youth Affairs.
“The committee, subsequently, recommends that this enhance in funds needs to be adequately and judiciously utilised by the division for the coaching of sportspersons collaborating within the Asian Games in Hangzhou in China, upcoming Paris Olympic Games and Para Olympics in 2024.”
The panel also noted that with the budgetary components of Khelo India programme and Sports Authority of India (SAI) constituting significant amount of the total budget of the department of sports, it was important to have a separate ‘demand head’ for better administrative control and decision making.
Khelo India has been allocated Rs. 1,000 crores and SAI Rs. 785.52 crore at the BE stage for the current financial year, totalling to Rs. 1785.52 crore.
The two components amount to 72.50% of the total budgetary allocation of Rs. 2462.59 crore for the sports department.
“The committee is of the opinion that in order to have better implementation of the programmes/schemes of the department of sports with better administrative control and decision making over these issues, there is a need to have a separate demand head.
“This way it can place its achievements in a better way before the Ministry of Finance for enhanced allocation of budget in future. The committee recommends that the Department of Sports should pursue with the Ministry of Finance to create a separate Demand Head for it,” really helpful the panel.
The committee additionally really helpful that the sports activities division ought to additional strengthen its monitoring mechanism “in order that gainful and optimum utilisation of funds is ensured”.
The panel also recommended prioritisation and utilisation of funds in flagship schemes such as Khelo India and Sports University in North East Region and also remove bottlenecks in the utilisation of funds.
It noted that Khelo India is one of the most important schemes for promotion of sports in the country and efforts should be made to widen its horizon, adding that the panel should be apprised of infrastructure development for the two projects.
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