Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], August 29 (ANI): Addressing the National Sports Day – 2025, a perform organised on the Multipurpose Sports Hall Parade Ground on the event of Major Dhyanchand Jayanti on Friday, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami mentioned that sports activities and sportsmanship present power, self-discipline and inspiration to society. He mentioned that Major Dhyanchand launched the entire world to India’s sports activities energy with the magic of his stick, based on a press launch from Uttarakhand CMO.
‘He even advised Hitler what patriotism actually is. Following his beliefs, right now beneath the management of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, our nation can be turning into a world sports activities energy, through which Uttarakhand has additionally geared as much as play its position. He mentioned that the Prime Minister is attempting to encourage sports activities tradition within the nation by packages like ‘Khelo India’ and ‘Fit India Movement’. Today, our gamers don’t play solely to take part in any competitors however enter the sphere with the resolve to win and wave the tricolour,’ the CM mentioned.
‘Looking at current examples, Neeraj Chopra created historical past by profitable the gold medal within the javelin throw on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, whereas the lads’s hockey group received the bronze medal after a 41-year wait. Similarly, within the Paris Olympics, Neeraj Chopra received the silver medal, Manu Bhaker received two bronze medals, Swapnil Kusle and Aman Sehrawat received one bronze medal every, and the lads’s hockey group introduced glory to India by profitable its second consecutive bronze medal. In the not too long ago held Asian Athletics Championship, Jyoti Yarajji, Gulveer Singh and Avinash Sable have raised the flag of India by profitable gold medals. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has elevated the sports activities price range 3 times,’ he added.
The Chief Minister mentioned, as quoted by the press launch, ‘The grand and profitable organisation of the thirty eighth National Games held in Uttarakhand has paved the best way to ascertain Uttarakhand as ‘Devbhoomi’ in addition to ‘Khelbhoomi’. In this yr’s National Games, our gamers created historical past by profitable 103 medals and securing seventh place within the National Games for the primary time. Now world-class sports activities infrastructure has been developed within the state. ‘
Uttarakhand has turn out to be able to organising not solely nationwide but additionally worldwide sports activities competitions. Recently, the nation’s solely Olympic-standard Himadri ice rink has been renovated. As a consequence, international-level competitors has been organised on this ice rink, which isn’t solely a matter of delight for our state however has additionally proved to be a milestone in ushering in a brand new period of winter sports activities in India.
‘The state authorities can be going to implement a ‘Sports Legacy Plan’ quickly, beneath which 23 sports activities academies might be established in eight main cities of the state. Every yr, 920 world-class athletes and 1000 different gamers will obtain high-level coaching in these academies. The state authorities is establishing Uttarakhand’s first sports activities college in Haldwani and a ladies’s sports activities faculty in Lohaghat,’ Dhami added.
Under the brand new sports activities coverage, medal winners on the nationwide and worldwide degree are being given the power of presidency jobs. Along with this, amenities like free coaching and schooling to the gamers learning in residential sports activities faculties, and sports activities scholarships are additionally being supplied to encourage proficient youth.
The state authorities can be working to encourage the rising younger gamers of the state by packages like ‘Chief Minister Sports Development Fund’, ‘Chief Minister Khiladi Protsahan Yojana’, ‘Chief Minister Udiyaman Khiladi Yojana’ and ‘Khel Kit Yojana’.
While awarding the medal-winning gamers in varied worldwide competitions on this event, the Chief Minister mentioned, On the event of Sports Day, the state authorities is offering honorarium of about Rs 16 crore to greater than 250 gamers and their trainers. Among the gamers being honoured, Mandeep Kaur, Amisha Rawat and Manoj Sarkar, who participated within the Paris Olympics 2024, have been given an honorarium of Rs 50 lakh every.’
Shaurya Saini and Abhinav Deshwal, who introduced glory to the nation by profitable gold medals in worldwide competitions, had been awarded an honorarium of Rs 30 lakh every. Apart from this, an quantity of about Rs 5.5 crore was additionally supplied to three,900 gamers beneath the ‘Mukhyamantri Udiyaman Khiladi Unnayan Yojana’ and a couple of,199 gamers beneath the ‘Mukhyamantri Protsahan Yojana’ for his or her month-to-month scholarship.
The CM concluded by saying, ‘ India has began efforts to host the Commonwealth Games in 2030, so the Sports Department and younger gamers should begin getting ready for it any more. On this event, the Chief Minister introduced to construct an athletic artificial observe within the Parade Ground and lay artificial soccer turf within the Pavilion Football Ground. On this event, he additionally supplied out-of-turn appointment letters to Manasi Negi within the Sports Department and Mohammad Arshad within the Police Department, who received medals in sports activities occasions.’ (ANI)