Year 2016 remained a spectacular year on
the ground of sports. It is either Rio Paralympics from early of the year or
the recently India’s victory in the Hockey, the year was full of achievements
in the many events of the sports for the country. These are the highlights for
the sports in the year 2016 for the preparation of the Competitive Examination.
Rio
Paralympics –
2016: India won its highest ever medal tally of 4 medals (2 Gold, 1 Silver and
1 Bronze all in athletics). The athletes are Shri Devendra Jhajharia and Shri
Mariappan, Gold medalists, Ms Deepa Malik, Silver medalist and Shri Varun Singh
Bhati, Bronze medalist. Cash award distribution function was held for medal
winners of Rio Olympics/Paralympics. Prime Minister met medal winners in
Paralympics 2016 on 22.9.2016.
Participation of Athletes ensuring and
making all arrangements for participation of the largest ever contingent of
India in Olympics / Paralympics 2016 in Rio. India won 2 medals in Olympics (1
silver and 1 Bronze in Badminton and wrestling respectively).
12th
South Asian Games
were successfully conducted at Guwahati and Shillong in February 2016 India’s
regional supremacy went unchallenged with a record-breaking haul of 308 medals.
India’s final tally stood at 188 gold, 99 silver and 30 bronze medals. It was a
massive jump in medal count for the Indians, who had won 175, including 90
gold, in the previous edition of the Games in 2010.
BRICS
U-17 Football tournament: First ever U-17 Football tournament among teams of
five BRICS countries was organized and successfully held at Goa in October
2016. All the five BRICS countries
participated in the same.
Run
for Rio
on 31st July, 2016 was organized to create awareness among masses about Rio
Olympics and to convey wishes of the country-men to Olympians and Paralympians
participating in Rio for 2016. The same
was flagged off by Prime Minister.
Consultation with Elite sports
persons: First ever Round Table
conference was held with Khel Ratna Awardees, Dronacharya Awardees and other
eminent sports personalities/athletes in Vigyan Bhawan on 3rd October, 2016 on
the performance of India in Olympics / Paralympics 2016 and action plan for
future.
Indian
U-18 Men Hockey Team
won gold in 4th at Dhaka Asia cup beating Bangladesh in the final at Dhaka.
National Sports Day was celebrated on 29.08.2016 at Major Dhyanchand
National Stadium.
All India Meeting of grassroots level
officers of SAI at different SAI Training Centres spread across India was held
on 17th October, 2016 to know about the issues relating to the Centres.
Khelo
Football: Subroto Mukerjee Sports Education Society
(SMSES) has already organized a pilot programme “#Khelo Football”, for
development and popularization of football. Through this programme, talents
from the remote areas has been scouted and one team each in the Junior Girls
and Boys has been formed and given Wild Card Entry in the 57th edition of
Subroto Cup Football Tournament 2016.
Mission
11 Million Programme:
FIFA U-17 World Cup is being looked at as an opportunity to popularize the
sport of Football amongst youth. Following the call of Prime Minister, the
Department of Sports has taken a series of steps to popularize Football
throughout the country. After several rounds of discussion with FIFA, AIFF,
KVS, CBSE, Subroto Mukerjee Sports Education Society (SMSES) and other
stake-holders a ‘Mission 11 Million programme’ has been formulated to be
launched in collaboration with AIFF and FIFA in about 30 cities across the
country.
Launch
of a new scheme ‘Khelo India - National Programme for Development of
Sports’: A new Central Sector Scheme
namely ‘Khelo India’ was launched from the financial year 2016-17 onwards. The
scheme has three components viz., competitions from district level upwards,
talent nurturing and development of sports infrastructure from Tehsil level onwards and funds have been provided to
various states for conducting Sports competitions from district level upwards.
Rs. 5 Crores have been released to
J&K under Khelo India Scheme for organising village level sports
competitions in sports disciplines which are popular in the valley so that
young children can be engaged in productive activities.
National Sports development bill has
been sent to Legislative department for approval and is likely to be introduced
in Budget session of parliament.
Direct
Benefit Transfer
: Matter has been taken up with all the States with the request to issue
requisite instructions to create a DBT portal in the Department of Sports/State
Sports Councils of the States/UTs to make payments to the beneficiaries through
RTGS/NEFT/PFMS and create a digitization of the beneficiaries database, obtain
and seed Aadhar card details of beneficiaries and include the details of
payment whether it is in cash or in kind.
India beat Belgium 2-1 to win junior
hockey world cup title on 18.12.2016.
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