1. Preamble:
1.1 The competitive Sports & Games are integral part of life of human beings
and there is an urgent need to promote sports in a systematic manner. In
order to achieve excellence in sports, both at National and International
levels, there is a need to streamline the functioning of the department, adopt
a uniform policy so that sports is broad based, sports activities in the state
are well spread over the year; the competitions are held regularly; people of
different stratas in the society get a fair chance to show their mettle; harness
talent at grass root level besides providing beneficial recreation and
fostering of social harmony and discipline.
2. VISION
2.1 To make Punjab a vibrant leading edge state in the sports arena, to create
adequate infrastructure, promote rural games, adopt maximum disciplines
of Olympic games, broadbase sports, synergise the activities of Sports and
Education Departments, raise the standards of sports in the state; promote
the spirit of sportsmanship and camaraderie, harness talent at the grass root
level, nurture the potential sportspersons and achieve excellence in the
sports at both National and International level and give incentives to
sportspersons who win laurels for the State at National and International
levels.
3. PRINCIPLES
3.1 To ensure autonomy in sports, a close coordination with Punjab Olympic
Association and the other state level sports associations, so that the spirit of
Olympic games is respected, safeguarded and developed.
3.2 To take all steps to bring more transparency in the working of sports
associations.
3.3 To ensure sustainable financial supporting to POA and other state level
sports associations of disciplines of Olympic games to ensure regular activity in the field of sports and at the same time encourage them to create
their own sources of revenue to obviate total dependence on the state.
3.4 For giving financial assistance to State level associations a self contained
transparent policy shall be framed.
3.5 To provide technical manpower to state sports associations and academic
institutes.
3.6 To take appropriate steps to encourage involvement of Private and
Corporate sector in development of sports infrastructure, training and
conduct of sports competitions.
4. OBJECTIVES
4.1 Broad basing of sports in three tier system i.e. State level, District level and
Village level.
4.2 To develop sports culture in the state by providing improved sports
facilities at all levels.
4.3 To lay emphasis on improving the existing sports infrastructure and
develop latest state-of-the art sports infrastructure in the state at each
District headquarter with pro-active support of Municipal Corporations/
Councils and Private/ Corporate sector.
4.4 To create sports infrastructure and sports facilities at village and block level
through Panchayat Yuva Krida Aur Khel Abhiyan (PYKKA) and other
state level schemes.
4.5 To set up a Punjab Institute of Sports, a centre of excellence at Jalandhar.
4.6 To set up Regional Training Centres.
4.7 To strengthen the sports wings in schools and colleges.
4.8 To encourage sports & youth clubs to conduct sports activities.
4.9 To develop synthetic surfaces for Athletics, Hockey & other games in the
state.
4.10 To take effective steps to patronize and promote local games like Circle
Kabaddi, Gatka, Tug of War etc.
4.11 To provide sports equipment to all coaching centres, sports wings and
coaching camps for selected competitions.
4.12 To organize sports competitions at block, district, state, national and
international levels.
4.13 To organize seminars/ clinics for coaches/players to update their knowledge
by inviting coaches of international level.
4.14 To provide cash incentives, awards and employment opportunities to
outstanding sportspersons.
4.15 To establish a Scientific Evaluation and Monitoring Lab.
4.16 Promotion of sports among girls and women to be encouraged.
4.17 Promotion of sports for disabled to be encouraged.
5. MECHANISM TO ACHIEVE THE OBJECTIVES
5.1 SPORTS IN GENERAL
5.2 To provide access to sports for all classes of citizens in all segments of
society.
5.3 Provision of funds to create basic sports infrastructure and development of
playfields in all the villages and blocks of the state, during the next ten
years. Annual acquisition and operational grants would be provided to
purchase sports equipment and running of sports activities by the trained
sports volunteers.
5.4 Creation of basic sports facilities in schools/colleges and to make sports an
integral part of school/college curriculum.
5.5 To assist educational institutions, boards, corporations & private
undertakings to organize sports competitions and to patronize specific
games by creating their own teams.
5.6 Competitions at block, district, state and national level to be encouraged
and Annual League Format in selected sports disciplines, to be introduced.
5.7 To encourage girls and women participation in sports and organizing
tournaments at all levels, exclusively for girls. 5.8 To make optimal use of Govt. of India funds to create sports infrastructure,
running of sports activities and organization of tournaments at various
levels. 5.9 To make sports infrastructure disabled friendly and promote sports among
persons with disabilities.
5.10 High priority will be accorded to development of sports and regular
conduct of sporting events at Block, District and State levels. Mass
participation will be ensured by involving institutions of Panchayati Raj,
local bodies of towns and cities, schools and colleges, sports associations,
youth clubs, corporate houses and semi/ autonomous bodies of the
government. Earnest efforts shall be made to promote club culture to ensure
autonomy. 5.11 The broad basing of sports will be achieved by creating a 3 tier system as
under:-
a. Block Level.
b. District Level.
c. State Level.
5.12 Integration of sports with education: The Department of Sports and
Youth Services will ensure that the annual sports calendar is prepared in
synchronisation with the academic calendar in such a manner that it allows
the students to take active part in sports competitions without having any
adverse impact on their academic performance.
5.13 Appointment of Coaches: Adequate number of coaches will be provided
in all districts. Besides the regular appointees the shortfall of coaches, if
any, will be met by appointing coaches on contract basis.
5.14 INFORMATION & DOCUMENTATION
5.14.1 To disseminate information to the general public, the Sports Department will
make use of all available information technology tools. The website of the
department shall contain upto date information of sportspersons, sports
infrastructure, different schemes of the department, records of different level of
the competitions.
5.14.2 The Sports Department will strengthen the exiting libraries in the offices of
Districts Sports Officers. A state level sports library will also be established in the
Office of Director Sports, Punjab.
6. SPORTS IN PARTICULAR
6.1 In order to develop sports standards in schools and colleges, which have
adequate sports infrastructure and show keen interest in organizing specific
sports, their needs of technical support and of basic equipment, trained
personnel and diet charges shall be met by the state to some extent. The govt. would encourage the opening up of new sports wings and strengthen
the existing ones, to create ideal feeding centres. The selected players
would be provided boarding/lodging, insurance and medical cover, sports
infrastructure, equipment, kitting and training by the expert coaches. These
sports wings would serve as feeding grounds for the Centres of Excellence.
The diet charges of the players would be revised from time to time, keeping
in view the prevailing prices.
6.2 To give competition exposure to the players, competitions at block, district,
state and national level would be organized.
6.3 The government would provide financial assistance to all District Olympic
Associations of the state to conduct district level competitions, through District
Sports Associations. Financial assistance upto 10,000/- per association would be
provided. Guidelines in this regards shall be issued separately. To encourage
participation and competitiveness at grass-root level, all the District Olympic
Associations of the state shall be encouraged to organise district level games . The
Sports Department shall provide financial assistance @ Rs. 2.00 lac per year to
every DOA for this purpose.
6.4 To commemorate birthday of Hockey Legend Major Dhyan Chand every year,
29
th
August would be celebrated as National Sports Day at each district
headquarter. The District Olympic Associations shall organise popular sports
events like Cycle race, Marathon, Tug of War, Circle Kabaddi, and other games
on this occasion. It would be ensured that the finals of Inter Block Tournament
under PYKKA Scheme are held on this day and awards to the winning teams are
distributed on this occasion.
6.5 The state government recognises the contribution of education institutions in the
promotion of sports. It has always encouraged the creation of sports infrastructure
in the universities which organise inter-college tournaments in different
disciplines and participate in all India Inter University Tournaments. Govt. of
India presents Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad (MAKA) trophy every year to the
university which gives best overall performance. The Universities situated in
Punjab have the honour to bag this award for the last 27 Years.
6.6 The universities in the state shall be further encouraged to maintain their
supremacy at All India Inter University Level and will be encouraged by
providing a lump sum grant of 1.00 crore every time for winning MAKA trophy.
7. EXCELLENCE IN SPORTS
7.1 Achieving excellence and winning medals in the Olympics and other
international sports events has been a matter of pride for all nations of the
world. Many countries have been spending sizable resources and providing best of facilities to the top
best of facilities to the top sports persons for coaching, training etc. on a
long term basis to enhance their performance in various international sports
events, winning laurels for the country. Over years, competition at
international level is getting tougher and tougher. Latest technology is
being adopted increasingly for improving upon the existing world records.
International sports have become extremely competitive and infact no
longer subscribe to the theory of “Sports” for the sake of sports.
7.2 International competitive sports have also become extremely expensive
owing to huge investments required in equipment, costly coaching and
training services etc. The centre and states have been supporting high
performing national sportspersons who represent the country and
participate in recognized international competitions. In some cases,
corporate sponsors step in to provide resources to sportspersons to train and
gain international exposure in return for commercial endorsements and
brand ambassador duties for the sponsors. It may have been helpful in
individual cases but may not always lead to most desirable results.
7.3 Under the New Sports Policy, the Punjab Govt. commits itself to providthe necessary financial and other support to outstanding sportspersons to
pursue the goal of winning medals in world class competitions.
7.4 The govt. intends to organize competitions of international level in selected
sports disciplines on annual basis to provide international exposure to our
national teams and facilitate people of the state to witness international
matches live.
7.5 The govt. also intends to establish Punjab Institute of Sports at Jalandhar
which would serve as a ‘Centre of Excellence’ for international medal
prospects of the state. They would be provided modern state-of-the art
sports infrastructure, nutritious diet, latest sports equipment and training on
scientific lines.
7.6 Three Regional Training Centres, one each in Majha, Malwa and Doaba
would also be established and provided with hi-tech sports facilities.
7.7 The govt. will adopt innovative methods to mobilize funds from the state,
para statal bodies, private and corporate sector, for promotion of sports. 7.8 Concerted efforts would be made to revive Punjab’s pre-eminent position in
the national game of hockey and focus would be on selected individual
games.
8. SPORTS INFRASTRUCTURE
8.1 The Govt. is committed to provide funds for development of playgrounds in
all the villages and blocks of the state, in the next ten years.
8.2 Latest sports infrastructure for different games would be developed in the
state and efforts shall be made to provide synthetic surfaces in the games of
hockey, athletics, badminton, lawn tennis, handball, basketball, etc.
8.3 Modern state-of-the art, multispeciality sports complex would be developed
at SAS Nagar.
8.4 World class Hockey and Cricket Stadiums would be developed in the state.
8.5 Training Synthetic Hockey Grounds would be developed in rich pockets of
hockey.
9. AWARDS AND INCENTIVES TO SPORTSPERSONS
9.1 The state awards are presented to the sportspersons for their outstanding
achievement in the field of sports. The state govt. is fully alive to its
responsibility to nurture, facilitate and encourage sportspersons. It has
instituted Maharaja Ranjit Singh Award for the sportspersons who bring
laurels and glory to the state and country by winning medals at national and
international level. Apart from Maharaja Ranjit Singh Award, the other
awards and incentives which shall be conferred upon sportspersons of the
state are detailed at Annexure ‘A’.
9.2 The award money for Maharaja Ranjit Singh Award and other state awards
to be instituted by the govt., would be reviewed periodically, in consonance
with prevailing value of money.
9.3 The govt. intends to institute some more state awards in future for further
encouragement of sports-persons/ sports officials/ sports administrators and
sports promoters.
9.4 The cash awards are introduced primarily to compensate the medal winners
of national/international sports events for the expenses incurred on diet,
training, preparations and for the deprivations suffered by them due to their devotion
devotion and service to sports. The objective is also to mitigate the
sufferings caused due to hardships encountered during preparation. Another
purpose of the cash awards is to encourage and motivate the outstanding
sportspersons for even higher achievements and to attract the younger
generation to take to sports as a career. These cash awards definitely help to
rehabilitate the medal winners with honour, dignity and comfort after the
conclusion of their active sports career which is generally of a very short
duration. The cash awards are also the expression of appreciation and
gratitude of the state to the medal winners for winning laurels for the state
and country.
9.5 The govt. has formulated Cash Award Policy for outstanding sportspersons
of the state. The quantum of money of cash awards would be enhanced
from time to time, keeping in view the high status of these awards.
9.6 The games covered under Cash Award Policy shall be reviewed
periodically.
9.7 Bus concession upto 75% would be provided to players who have
participated in National level championships and free travel concession to
Arjuna Awardee, Maharaja Ranjit Singh Awardee, Medalist of
Asian/Commonwealth games and Olympian in Punjab Roadways ordinary
and deluxe/AC buses.
10. PENSION TO10.1 There is a need to have a provision of pension for eminent sportspersons to
give an unambiguous message to all those talented sportspersons, who
aspire to become international champions, that the govt. would back
appreciation of their achievement with tangible and meaningful life-time
assistance in the form of a pension. The assured monthly income is a
compensation for the opportunities spurned by sportsmen at the altar of
growing commercialization of sports to win laurels for the country.
10.2 The rates at which the Sports Department/ Punjab State Sports Council
would provide pension to medalists and participants of Olympics and other
International competitions, are appended as Annexure ‘B’. The eligibility
criteria for the Pension Scheme and its rates shall be reviewed periodically
to neutralize the impact of inflation.
11. RECRUITMENT POLICY
11.1 The Govt. in the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms has
formulated a Recruitment Policy to provide reservation in employment to
outstanding sportspersons of the state.
11.2 The Govt. will review the Recruitment Policy from time to time to provide
wider employment opportunities to sportsmen.
12. INVOLVEMENT OF NRI’S FOR GIVING FILLIP TO SPORTS
12.1 A large number of Punjabis, particularly from the Doaba region who
migrated to foreign lands have retained strong emotional and cultural bonds
with Punjab. Many a times, they display their affection and generosity by
organizing rural tournaments with impressive participation of several
teams. The games they particularly patronize are Circle Kabaddi,
Wrestling, Weightlifting, Hockey and Football.
12.2 The government will join hands with such NRI’s from Punjab and apart
from assisting them in the organization of these tournaments, it shall also
give them proper honour and recognition. It will have a salutary effect and
shall encourage a large number of NRI’s to contribute more substantially to
make sports a mass movement in villages. With the active association of
the government these tournaments shall also acquire a higher status and
prestigious teams would start participating in them, raising the standard of
competition.
13. INVOLVEMENT OF SEMI-GOVT. CORPORATIONS AND
BOARDS
13.1 All the Corporations/Boards and Apex Cooperative Institutions in the state
would be brought under the overall umbrella of SAPSO (Sports
Associations of Punjab Semi-Government Organizations). These
Organizations shall be encouraged to adopt atleast one game of their
choice.
The purpose of setting up SAPSO and adoption of games by individual
organizations would be four-fold :-
(i) To promote Sports Culture in the Units, which would have the effect of
improving overall discipline, increase productivity and bring about close
identification and a feeling of pride among the employees in these
organizations. Sports are acknowledged as an important tool for improving
employee-management relations. (ii) It will give a tremendous boost to the promotion of Sports by opening up
facilities for training of budding sportsmen generating Competition among
them due to suitable incentives. (iii) It will prevent drain of sportsmen and women from Punjab because the
scheme will open up more avenues of employment within the home state.
(iv) These Corporations/Boards will compliment Govt. effort by contributing in
money and resources to augment sporting facilities in the State.
14. EXEMPTION OF ENTERTAINMENT DUTY ON SPORTS
TOURNAMENTS/ EVENTS
14.1 With an aim to open up more avenues of competition, and to improve
financial well being of sports organizations and clubs, govt. shall exempt
sports competitions/ events from payment of entertainment duty even when
the money is raised by the organizers, by ticketing the event in Olympic
disciplines including Circle style Kabaddi.
14.2 The possibility to levy some cess on liquor or license fee, would also be
explored to raise adequate financial resources for promotion of sports.
15. SPECIFIC MEASURES FOR GENERATING ADDITIONAL FINANCIAL
RESOURCES BY ASSOCIATING PRIVATE SECTOR AND OTHER
BODIES
15.1 The govt. would endeavour to involve Private Sector, Industrial and
Business Houses to make contribution for promotion of sports either by
employing sportsmen or by sponsoring sports events. The govt. would also
rope in the private sector by giving suitable recognition to such industrial
houses which come forward to help sports projects. A suitable package of
attractive incentives shall be offered to encourage industrial and business
houses for sports promotion.
16. SETTING UP OF PUNJAB SPORTS INFRASTRUCTURE
DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE BOARD.
16.1 For proper and sustained development of sports, it is imperative that
sports infrastructure is continuously developed, upgraded and
maintained. To achieve this objective, the State Government may set
up a Board for the development and maintenance of sports
infrastructure under the name and style of Punjab Sports
Infrastructure Development And Maintenance Board.
16.2 The Govt. will create adequate and appropriate sports related
infrastructure at Block, District and State levels through funds from
budgetary provisions, semi government boards/ corporations and
private corporate houses. 16.3 The maintenance of different stadia shall be done by Punjab Sports
Infrastructure Development and Maintenance Board. Till the board
comes into existence and is fully operationalised, the Sports
Department shall provide a lump sum grant of 5.00 lac per district
per year to District Sports Councils for the maintenance of stadia.
The Sports Department would depute coach(es) for operation and
maintenance of block level stadia. A committee comprising of
principal/headmaster of the school, coach, physical education
teacher of the school and the concerned sarpanches would be setup
to make the stadiums operational.
16.4 To make optimal use of sports stadiums and sports infrastructure
existing in universities and other educational institutions, a suitable
institutional frame work shall be evolved so that it could be used by
different organizations and sportsmen of the state
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