President, Indian Olympic Affiliation, P.T. Usha, being current a memento by L.V. Navaneeth, CEO, The Hindu Group, in the course of the Sportstar KPMG Playcom Enterprise of Sports activities Summit 2025, at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on Friday. Sports activities Minister, Mansukh Mandaviya, Chairperson of The Hindu Group, Nirmala Lakshman are additionally seen.
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Union Minister of Youth Affairs & Sports activities and Labour & Employment, Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday stated that sports activities should grow to be a individuals’s motion and efforts have to be put to proliferate sporting tradition in each family. He outlined the federal government’s imaginative and prescient to make India among the many high 5 sporting nations on the earth.
He was talking on the inaugural session of the PlayCom 2025: Enterprise of Sports activities Summit organised by The Hindu Group’s Sportstar in partnership with international consulting agency KPMG India in New Delhi. “I’m completely satisfied that via Sportstar, necessary conversations round sport, sports activities science and athlete welfare are being dropped at the forefront,” he stated.
Addressing the gathering within the presence of Indian Olympic Affiliation president P.T. Usha, The Hindu Group Chairperson, Nirmala Lakshman, and Sportstar’s Editor Ayon Sengupta, the Minister underlined the necessity for a holistic and inclusive method to remodel India’s sporting panorama.
Highlighting the essential position of coverage and good governance in sports activities, he stated, “We’re already engaged on a 10-year and a 25-year strategic plan to remodel India’s sporting ecosystem. This long-term plan will information us in the direction of a Viksit Bharat and set up India among the many high 5 sporting nations of the world, consistent with the Prime Minister’s imaginative and prescient.”
Mandaviya stated that the Nationwide Sports activities Governance Act, 2025 will guarantee athlete-centric governance with devoted mechanisms for dispute redressal, and can mandate illustration for ladies in decision-making our bodies. “It attracts on international finest practices however is rooted in our personal mannequin. We should study from the world, however our framework should mirror India’s distinctive strengths. The coverage emphasises good governance, robust infrastructure, the appliance of sports activities science, and systematic expertise identification and nurturing,” he added.
He reiterated the significance of initiatives like “Match India” and “Khelo India,” stating that they’ve efficiently created consciousness and enthusiasm amongst residents. “Our imaginative and prescient is that each youngster ought to develop up with the fervour to play, each avenue ought to grow to be a playground, and each podium must be a stage for India’s flag to fly excessive,” he added. He additionally cited the significance of initiatives like “Sundays on Cycles” as symbolic of grassroots engagement and known as for embedding sporting tradition in each family. “Sport should grow to be a individuals’s movement—-one by which each citizen has a stake,” he added.
Revealed on September 12, 2025