Whenever a great sports event like Commonwealth Games, Asian Games or Olympics is discussed, we often become eager to know how many golds and silvers and bronzes Indian sportsmen and athletes have won. We are sad to know that a country with such a large population is not able to win a gold. Let us be frank in admitting that our country lags behind in promoting sports with full zeal so as to win medals in international meets. This is true of our State also. We are always told that owing to winter conditions, we have only six months at the disposal of sportsmen/women. This is not acceptable. In western countries, the weather is harsher than in our State. But yet they are far ahead of us in all sports and athletics. The Minister for Youth Services and Sports has recently chaired 129th meeting of Standing Committee of J&K State Sports Council where he has announced various steps to promote and encourage sports in the State. These are all appreciable decisions and hopefully the idea of having stadia at each block will materialize some day. We have very satisfactory talent of sports but we lack facilities to exploit the talent at proper time. The talent has to be caught young and put to hard training. They have to be given incentives to prove their capability of making a mark in their respective field. The good thing is that there is no shortage of funds for the promotion of sports. The Prime Minister has sanctioned 700 crore rupees for promotion of sports in J&K State and this has to be utilized properly to reach the goal of creating teams of sportsmen and women who can compete and win the day.
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