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Rijiju convened timely meetings for TOPS, prioritising India's prospects at the Olympics, and was actively involved in the decision-making of allocating the facility to the players. Indian athletes have spoken about how the TOPS scheme has helped them excel. With the help of the scheme, athletes are provided with customised training under reputed coaches at institutes having world-class facilities, participation in international competition, purchasing high-quality equipment.
The scheme's effectiveness has produced several medal-winning prospects at the Tokyo Olympics like javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, wrestler Vinesh Phogat, weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, among others.
The primary goal for this was meeting the needs and requirements of elite athletes supported under TOPS. It was launched in to assist outstanding sportspersons of yesteryear who lived in indigent circumstances and brought glory to sports.
In , Rijiju announced financial help of Rs 5 lakh each to boxer Sunil Chauhan and his brother Neeraj Chauhan, who is an archer, considering the hardships they were facing after their father lost his job in the wake of the COVID pandemic. The Ministry also envisioned the implementation of the 'Scheme of Sports Fund for Pension to Meritorious Sportspersons' for additional support with a lifetime pension between Rs 12, to Rs 20, after they retire from active sports careers.
The Khelo India Program, which was launched in to revive the sports culture in India at the grass-root level, soared to new heights under Rijiju. Events included snow skiing, snow rugby, snow ice stock, snow baseball, snow mountaineering, snowshoe, ice hockey, figure skating, and speed skating.
To bring further focus on traditional sports, the Ministry also approved the inclusion of four indigenous sports to be a part of the Khelo India Youth Games , which was scheduled to be held in Haryana in Kiren Rijiju took up the responsibility of reaching out to people through his social media pretty seriously. He once had told PTI, "People must be thinking what is the sports minister doing, he is responding to such kind of amateur talk, but I had to show sections which don't know sports that I am hands-on with Indian sports and I am there for the athletes.
I will give all the opportunities to all potentials, so I had to show that. Karnataka: Srinivasa Gowda from Mudbidri, Mangaluru ran Start Learning English Hindi. This question was previously asked in. Start Now. He replaced Vijay Goel, who has been made the minister of state for parliamentary affairs. Colonel Rathore first stepped in a shooting range in the mids and some years later, he became India's first ever individual silver medal winner at the Olympic Games.
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ET India Inc. ET Engage. ET Secure IT. India's journey to become great sporting nation will continue: Outgoing sports minister Kiren Rijiju Kiren Rijiju, who took charge of the sports ministry in May , will hand over the responsibilities to Thakur, who is also the Information and Broadcasting minister in the reshuffled cabinet.
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