Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: February 01, 2024, 18:22 IST
Union Minister Anurag Thakur. (File Image/Credit: Twitter)
2024 Paris Olympics would be the nation’s major focus through the 2024-25 monetary 12 months.
The Sports Ministry was on Thursday allotted Rs 3,442.32 crore, a hike of Rs 45.36 crore as in comparison with final 12 months, in the interim Union Budget introduced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
In the earlier funds, the Sports Ministry had obtained a revised allocation of Rs 3,396.96 crore.
The Olympic Games in Paris, to be held from July 26 to August 11, would be the nation’s major focus through the 2024-25 monetary 12 months.
The ministry’s flagship programme, Khelo India, was allotted Rs 900 crore, a rise of Rs 20 crore from the earlier funds.
The Sports Authority of India (SAI), which organises nationwide camps, gives infrastructure and tools to athletes, appoints coaches amongst others, noticed Rs 26.83 crore improve in its budgetary allocation from the earlier 12 months’s revised expenditure of Rs 795.77 crore.
The National Sports Federations (NSFs) will obtain Rs 15 crore extra this time, as in comparison with the 2023-24 revised funds of Rs 325 crore.
The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) too obtained a elevate with the federal government allocating Rs 22.30 crore in the interim funds as in comparison with Rs 21.73 crore in 2023-24.
The National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL), which conducts the testing of dope samples, will obtain Rs 22 crore, Rs 2.5 crore greater than the earlier funds.
The funds for National Centre of Sports Science and Research has been lowered to Rs 8 crore from Rs 10 crore beforehand, whereas the National Sports University will get an elevated allocation of Rs 91.90 crore from Rs 83.21 crore of 2023-24 funds.
The funds for giving incentives to sportspersons noticed a major discount from Rs 84 crore to Rs 39 crore.
The allocation for National Sports Development Fund was additionally lowered to Rs 18 from Rs 46 crore. The Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay National Welfare for Sportspersons scheme obtained Rs 2 crore.
The allocation for ‘Enhancement of Sports Facility in Jammu and Kashmir’ was additionally introduced right down to Rs 8 crore from earlier funds allocation of Rs 20 crore.
In the earlier funds, the allocation for Commonwealth Games was Rs 15 crore, which was introduced right down to Rs 0.01 crore this time.
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