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I've been thinking about the role governments should have in sports, and I'm increasingly convinced that there is none: or almost none.
Currently, taxpayers are being coerced to hand over a big pot of money to super-highly paid sports bureaucrats who are busy attending international conferences in 5-star hotels, even as they get to (quite whimsically!) allocate funding to the sports of their choice. A feast! A delight! Pick, choose. Pick, choose. Enjoy 5-star hotels. Nice!
The whole thing is a massive racket.
I don't see why taxpayers should fund sports.
Let parents and private sponsors do that, and let sports sponsorship by governments be limited to finalising the list of those who will represent the nation, and funding the airfares of those selected.
The figure below shows what the Australian Institute of Sport spent ($310 million) on the recent Olympics campaign.
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Dear Sanjeev, It is important that Government give funds for sports and for that it has only one channel and that is through bureaucrats. Now it must have been conceived with idea that bureaucrats are highly educated, civilized and informed citizen of the country. For long it might have worked well but today it is failing.
Not only sports fund but all other funds being distributed for citizen being misused by bureaucrats. The overall distribution system is failing because of poor governance.
Sports in the country is in bad shape, sports person are suffering. Sudden change from Government funding to corporate funding may also not be practicable. Government must have plan to smooth transfer of responsibility. But I feel that is going to take some time.
However, the immediate action required is fixing the responsibility for such a massive failure by Government of India in this Olympics London 2012. Leaders including sports Minister Mr Ajay Maken must come forward with white paper on this massive failure of nation in sports. People must demands action and punishment to all those federations officials who have failed India.
Unfortunately, this fixing of responsibility is just not being talked about. May I request you to take things at high level to take some concrete action. Why India failed so miserably? What our Sports Authority of India is doing?