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| Ten years on and three Sports Ministers later, sports policy eludes J&K | | CM convenes single meeting of State Sports Council in 4 years as president | |
Abodh Sharma
Jammu, Aug 26: At a time when entire country is basking in the glory of its best ever showing in the Olympics at London, Sports in Jammu and Kashmir continue to lack purpose and direction.
The State Sports Council has failed to add on to the infrastructure which has decayed over the years, sports association have failed to promote their disciplines beyond the capital cities and those who brave all odds to excel in the national sporting arenas have faced cold shoulder of the sports administrators, demoralizing them from enhancing their performances.
Absence of a well deliberated sports policy has deprived the immense sporting talent available across the state of ample opportunities to blossom, resulting into state's poor showing in the national and international level while neighbouring states like Punjab, Haryana and even Himachal have improved their sports performances by leaps and bounds.
Yogesh Sawhney, who became Sports Minister in the PDP-Congress Coalition government in 2002, was the first Sports Minister who realized the need of a comprehensive sports policy, but could not transform his realization into reality. Babu Singh, who replaced him as the Sports Minister also promised to bring out a sports policy and made sincere efforts to elevate state sports council into a sports authority on the lines of Sports Authority of India and several other sports authorities in the other states, but his efforts succumbed to the compulsions of coalition politics which saw sports council as a refuge to adjust political workers as members.
Expectations were high when R S Chib was entrusted with the responsibility of the sports in the state as
he was an a former Air Force officer and was expected to induce fundamental changes in the existing sports scenario with the discipline, vision and commitment of an officer of defence services, but nearly four years since he took over the charge of sports ministry, things have changed but for the worse.
The sports infrastructure has decayed, the sports associations have worked according to their whims and fancies and ignored laid norms of the state sports council and sports persons who have managed to do good at national level have been deprived of their rightful incentives and opportunities.
It is a pity that while government and non government organisations have showered accolades and cash awards on those who brought laurels for the country in the Olympics, those who brought medals for the state in the national games and national championships years ago still await incentives and awards which were promised to them. These sportspersons are now a disappointed and disgruntled lot who feel unwanted and disgraced.
Sports fraternity also had high hopes from the 'young and dynamic' Chief Minister who also happens to be the president of the State Sports council, the apex sports body of the state, but his priority for sports can be gauged from the fact that the busy chief minister has convened a single meeting of the state sports council in four years.
With nation celebrating another National Sports Day in just two days, Jammu and Kashmir continues to be deprived of a deliberated, comprehensive sports policy that could provide a road map for development of sports in the state. |
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