The Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Ajay Maken and his team of officials appear to have read the pulse of the sports fraternity and the people at large right in proposing the tabling of the National Sports Development Bill in Parliament but faltered significantly in gauging the mood of law makers, falling at the first step by being unable to impress the Union Cabinet.
The Ministry of Sports has bitten off more than it can chew by saying that the National Sports Federations – registered societies, actually – would cease to have the right to select and depute the national teams for participation in continental and world-level international sports competitions if they did not comply with the guidelines issued on May 1. Before anything else, I must point out that the Ministry was working overtime on issuing the order May Day. In fact, a Ministry official worked harder on Sunday to send a copy of the order to the media on Sunday – well before many federations got to read the order. Read more »
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