Annual Report 2011-12.pdf - Performance Management Division

Salient features of the Scheme are as under:
( i) annual assistance @ Rs. 50 lakh to each State and Rs. 25 lakh to each Union
Territory for a period of 2 years to set up and operate a State-Level Playing Field
Association. The association must be modeled on the lines of the National Playing
Fields Association of India (NPFAI). The annual assistance is to be utilized to
further the objectives of the Association, including meeting establishment and
administrative expenses, maintaining a comprehensive database of registered
playing fields, providing legal assistance to endangered playing fields, conducting
seminars/ workshops, and providing assistance to support pilot projects at the state
level.
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At the national level, NPFAI will receive an annual grant of 2.5 crore per annum for
carrying out similar activities, including supporting pilot projects for States to
emulate. All projects assisted by NPFAI have to get them also registered with
NPFAI and enter into Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with it as community
playing facility as per a model MoU.
The development of sports training infrastructure on partnership mode with State
Governments/ local bodies/ colleges/ universities/ sports control boards on the one
hand, and SAI on the other. Under the scheme, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and
Sports (MYAS) will provide assistance through SAI, or directly, for the creation of
need-based sporting infrastructure in States/ UTs, which will function as SAI
extension centres, but the entire responsibility of maintenance of the infrastructure
will that of the State Government/ UT/ beneficiary entity.
With a view to maintaining focus on mother sports and popular sports, especially
those in which the country has good medal prospects, the following types of sports
infrastructure will get preference over others:
(a) Synthetic playing surface (for hockey, football and athletics)
(b) Multipurpose indoor halls.
CPWD, State PWD, or any Central or State PSU can be engaged for construction of
the projects. The CPWD/ State PWD schedule of rates will be adopted for preparing
the estimates. The grant as per approved estimates will be released to SAI directly
for taking up the project on partnership mode.
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