New Delhi, December 10, 2009: Government of India introduced a centrally sponsored scheme entitled ‘Panchayat Yuva Krida Khel Abhyan’, in 2008-09, for creation of basic sports infrastructure in all village and block panchayats and for conducing sports competitions at blocks, districts, states and national level of the country.
The XIth Five Year Plan outlay for this scheme is Rs.1500 crore. The scheme envisages to cover around 2.50 lakh village panchayats and 6,400 block panchayats (including their equivalent units) in a phased manner over a period of 10 years at an annual coverage of 10% (and the coverage will be 20% in the case of special category states including North Eastern States).
The scheme is implemented through the state governments / UTs administrations. An amount of Rs. 25.98 crore was, so far, sanctioned / released to Government of Andhra Pradesh during 2008-09 and 2009-10 for creating basic sports infrastructure in 2190 village panchayats and 113 block panchayats there. Further, for conducting competitions in 296 blocks and 22 districts and for state level competition during 2009-10, admissible grant to the State is Rs.3.55 crore against which Rs. 0.95 crore has already been released.
This was stated by the Minister of State for Youth Affairs & Sports, Pratik Prakashbapu Patil in the Rajya Sabha today, in a written reply to a question by Mohd. Ali Khan.
Press release from Union Youth Affiars and Sports Ministry
Through Press Information Bureau, Government of India.
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