Many in India feel that govt is doing a lot for athletes and sports. But that is a wrong notion. Making stunning stadiums, sending air conditioners, etc is not the real deal. In fact it is done with tax payers money to fill the pockets of their corrupt nexus of shell companies who earn a lot in the name of making stadiums, sending ACs etc.
Govt. has failed to create an ecosystem of any single sports like it has failed to create ecosystem for scientific research, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronics etc. Whatever achievement we see in sports...comes out of wrestling ecosystem in haryana, chess ecosystem in Tamil Nadu, badminton academies of gopichand & Padukone, jsw sponsored sports academies for hockey, abhinav bindra self financed his gold, etc.
Govt has not built even a single sports training infra...even if it has, it has failed and not heard of. All it does is short term investments which will make to the news.
Indian govt has 0 long term investment in any field. Excellence in IT field is due to private players leveraging cheap labour and not because of IITs. India is the only large country which still shamefully buys defence equipments from other countries and cannot make its own.
We as a society are too ethically and culturally inferior to other big nations and don't stand anywhere close to them. But our pride and ego is more than them.
Uttar Pradesh is getting its first sport university in Meerut 🫶🏻. Construction is already started!!
Location is also good near to Delhi, lot of local talent can be tapped.. Near by to Uttarakhand, Haryana, Punjab and Delhi… has potential to build whole ecosystem in that system.
Fact: Meerut is sport city of India..
Hence, can be a good combo of manufacturing and talent..
I hope slowly but steadily, India reaches the top tier
Government has not done a great job at a lot of things, but I think it is unfair to say that they have not put in efforts.
The task is huge. We are still dealing with the basics in our society. Sports is looked upon as leisure, and not something to be excelled at. That's not a wrong perspective to have for a developing country.
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India is good at team sports. Top level Individual athletes are produced by China, usa. Every country has its own talents.
But it would be wrong to say that Indian govt hasn’t done anything at all. Naveen patnaik has contributed a lot to Hockey. If recent example is to be given. Of course a lot more can and should be done.
Hi all, I have been wondering for the past few days, why we have such a poor sporting culture in our country?
China used to be like us in the 80s, with very few medals in the Olympics (if I consider the Olympics medals as a metric). But...
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