Eleventh Five Year Plan

Youth Affairs and Sports and Art and Culture 47There is a need for transparency and accountabilityin the functions of sports bodies. The facilities underSAI would need systematic and scientific expansionand upgradation. The management aspects pertainingto development of various individual sportsdisciplines will also need to be reviewed and mademore effective.BROAD-BASING: INTRODUCTION OF PANCHAYATYUVA KRIDA AUR KHEL ABHIYAN (PYKKA)2.1.26 Broad-basing of Sports is the key to the promotionand development of a sports culture. Theemphasis on sports should be on fitness of body ofevery individual and particularly youth and notrelegated to entertainment and related activities aslisted in the concurrent list. In order to make sportsas mass movement, a new CSS under the title of‘Panchayat Yuva Krida Aur Khel Abhiyan (PYKKA)’would be launched for filling up the gaps at the subdistrictlevel. The objective of the scheme is to createbasic infrastructure and facilities for sports and gamesat the village and town levels, generating a sports cultureamong the rural youth, organizing competitionand non-competition sporting activities at the villagelevel, and developing a competition structure up tothe district level. PYKKA would be implementedduring Eleventh and Twelfth Plan in a Mission Modewith the involvement of the PRIs and the 2.50 lakhRural Youth and Sports Clubs under NYKS and otherschemes of the State Governments in a phased manner.The existing scheme of Rural Sports Programmewill be subsumed in PYKKA. As the sports and gamesis State subject, the State Governments should alsoshare costs and be accountable.2.1.27 For purposes of funding under the scheme, itis proposed to bring in the greatest possible synergyand convergence between various schemes of theCentral Government, such as the National RuralEmployment Guarantee Scheme, Backward RegionsGrant Fund, relevant schemes of the Ministry of TribalAffairs and Department for the Development of theNorth Eastern Region, MP Local Area DevelopmentScheme (and similar schemes of State Governments),funds available to the PRIs through devolution andthe schemes of the State Governments for developmentof sports infrastructure.PROMOTION OF SPORTS EXCELLENCE2.1.28 The broad-basing of sports could graduallyyield a pool of one lakh talented youth at the Sub-Junior, Junior, and Senior levels, who would requiresystematic and scientific nurturing and focused trainingto achieve excellence at the national/internationallevels. This would require multiple measures, includingspotting/identification of national probablesbased on proficiency, performance, and potential;establishment of training infrastructure arrangements;coaching facilities; strengthening scientificand technical supports system; supply of qualitysports goods and equipment; and use of media tobring sports consciousness. There is a need to maintaina computerized inventory of assets relating tosports at State, district, and block levels. NGOs, outstandingsportspersons, and corporate entities wouldbe encouraged to get involved in the creation offacilities to promote sports excellence, in the form ofacademies, etc.2.1.29 Recognizing the role of media in creating sportsconsciousness in the country, all efforts would bemade to ensure their support in promoting and broadbasingof sports, particularly rural sports. The governmentwill have to build in some regulations to ensurecovering of sporting events apart from cricket andtennis to make good lack of adequate sponsorship.Special programmes and capsules also need to be preparedand aired, from time to time, about excellencepromotion programmes such as coaching camps,talent-spotting exercise, selection trials, etc., to generateawareness about the development of sports inthe country.2.1.30 As regards the development of physical education,steps would need to be taken to develop andbring about an integral relationship between relatedinstitutions, including the possible reorganizationof Laxmibai National College of Physical Education,Thiruvananthapuram as a Regional Centre (South) ofthe Laxmibai National Institute of Physical Education(LNIPE), Gwalior, which itself is a Deemed University.This would be in addition to other measurespertaining to synergy and complimentary betweenLNIPE and SAI. LNIPE would set up regional centresin the north east, east, west, and north. Besides, the