{"id":197784,"date":"2022-07-29T09:49:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T04:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=197784"},"modified":"2022-07-29T09:49:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T04:19:43","slug":"india-at-commonwealth-games-sports-governance-needs-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-at-commonwealth-games-sports-governance-needs-to-change\/","title":{"rendered":"India at Commonwealth Games: Sports governance needs to change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article \u201cIndia at Commonwealth Games: Sports governance needs to change\u201d published in the Indian Express on 28th<\/sup> July 2022.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 2 <\/strong>Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and Issues arising out of their Design and Implementation.
\nRelevance: <\/strong>Sports Development in India<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: Recently, the Indian contingent for the commonwealth games (CWG) has landed in the United Kingdom (UK)<\/p>\n

Some developments in Indian Sport\u2019s Sector<\/strong><\/h5>\n

In India. sports have become commercial. India\u2019s sporting accomplishments<\/strong> have grown quicker and medals have come at a faster clip than the rate at which the institutional setup for sport has evolved.<\/p>\n

The government spends a lot of money on training people abroad and hiring foreign coaches. Therefore, Indian teams and individuals spend time training and acclimatising in Europe, Japan, Korea, and the United States.<\/p>\n

Issues with Indian sports industry<\/strong><\/h5>\n

In the Olympics <\/strong>and the Commonwealth Games (CWG),<\/strong> India\u2019s performance is shadowed by the performance of other countries like China.<\/p>\n

In comparison to China, India\u2019s economic growth<\/strong> does not strongly correlate with India\u2019s sports performance. India\u2019s sports market has not kept pace with the rapid economic growth of India. For example<\/strong>, the market has failed even when India registered an economic growth of over 9% during 2004-09. The institutions were unable to keep pace with a rapidly growing economy.<\/p>\n

The national sports agencies still operate in the 20th-century mode<\/strong>. The associated mindset is that there should be lifetime employment in the federations. Therefore, they are run like fiefdoms. This has been brought to the fore by judicial intervention <\/strong>in several cases involving national federations. For example,<\/strong> the courts appointed Committee of Administrators <\/strong>(CoA) ran the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for six years before handing it over to an elected board.<\/p>\n

There are several sports in India that are subject to the same monopolistic attitude<\/strong> and conduct<\/strong> of federations. These federations are run by bureaucrats rather than by people who know the game.<\/p>\n

What should be done?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Institutions that govern the market in India should become much more friendly and facilitate the efficient functioning of markets.<\/p>\n

The Indian institutions<\/strong> managing sports need to change their culture<\/strong> that supports sport is critical to move to the next level. Former sports persons can take charge of guiding, mentoring and even running federations if not completely,<\/p>\n

India should become a training hub <\/strong>for sportspersons from different parts of the world. For example, in cricket, India can become the sought-after destination for training global talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on an article \u201cIndia at Commonwealth Games: Sports governance needs to change\u201d published in the Indian Express on 28th July 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and Issues arising out of their Design and Implementation. Relevance: Sports Development in India News: Recently, the… Continue reading India at Commonwealth Games: Sports governance needs to change<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-197784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}