MINISTRY OF YOUTH AFFAIRS AND SPORTS

• Identifying and supporting potential medal prospects for upcoming Olympic Games.
• It includes-

o Customized training at Institutes having world class facilities and other necessary support is being provided to the elite athletes.
o It would provide a benchmark for selection of athletes on par with international standards.
o Sports Authority of India (SAI) and the federations, which are the members of the 'Mission Olympic Cell' (MOC), would be the agencies for fund disbursal.
o Authority will make payments directly to the "person and institution concerned" on behalf of the athletes.
o Abinav Bindra Committee was constituted for identifying and supporting potential medal prospects for 2021 and 2024 Olympic Games under the Target Olympic Podium scheme.

• This Central sector scheme aims to develop the personality and leadership qualities of the youth and to engage them in nation building activities.
• It focuses on youth between the ages of 15-29 years as defined in national Youth Policy 2014.
• It subsumed following schemes- National Young Leaders Programme (NYLP), Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS), National Youth Corps (NYC), and National Programme for Youth & Adolescent Development (NPYAD), National Discipline Scheme (NDS), and Assistance to Scouting & Guiding Organisations. Youth Hostels (YH); and International Cooperation
• For information dissemination youth would be made aware about the new umbrella scheme through distribution of IEC materials.

• It is a national programme which aims to develop grassroots level talent by providing them with a national level platform.
• It is based on Gujarat’s model of “Khel Mahakumbh” in which schools and colleges from across the country participate in 27 different disciplines.
• It is the merger of three schemes Rajiv Gandhi Khel Abhiyan (RGKA), Urban Sports Infrastructure Scheme (USIS), National Sports Talent Search Scheme (NSTSS).
• Khelo India School Games (KISG) has been launched under the program.

• To make football the sport of choice in India.
• The programme aims to encourage children to play the game of football, gain healthy habits and learn important life lessons in teamwork and sportsman spirit.
• The initiative will focus on games that can be adapted to different field sizes and conditions, with special emphasis in small sided games.

• It is a Central Sector Scheme introduced in 1969 with the primary objective of developing the personality and character of the student youth through voluntary community services.
• The motto of NSS is “NOT ME, BUT YOU”. An NSS volunteer places the ‘community’ before ‘self’
• Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) (an autonomous organization under Ministry of Youth) oversight the functions.
• It provides opportunity to the student youth of 11th & 12th Class of schools at +2 Board level and student youth of Technical Institution, Graduate & Post Graduate at colleges and University level of India to take part in various government led community service activities & programmes.
• NSS attempts to establish meaningful linkages between ‘Campus and Community’, ‘College and Village’ and ‘Knowledge and Action’

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