Aim to turn India into a top sporting nation by 2047, says Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the Central government plans to transform India into a sporting country to make sure that it positions among the top five nations as far as sports by 2047 celebrates its centenary year of independence.

He likewise said drives like Khelo India and Fit India were pointed toward accomplishing the objective of India turning into a sporting country.

“We want India to be among the top five countries in terms of sports by 2047 when we celebrate 100 years of our independence,” Amit Shah said.

We are moving towards making India a sporting country. Alongside it we are building sports infrastructure, sports science focuses, local area instructing offices, orchestrating worldwide level mentors, coaches and sorting out yearly games.

He said the nation never fared well in sports other than cricket, which made Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take care of on this problem with an arranged way with an intend to make India a top sporting country by 2047.

Talking about KIUG-2021, Amit Shah said in 2020, the KIUG was held in Odisha, where 3,100 competitors from 138 universities took part in KIUG-2021 the number expanded to 3,900 competitors from 208 universities, which shows the ubiquity of the games among universities.

Praising the Jain Deemed To Be University, which was one of the vital coordinators of the games and dominated greatest awards this year,

Talking on the event, Union Minister for Sports Anurag Thakur hailed the Karnataka government and Jain University for getting sorted out the occasion, which he felt was comparable to global level universities games.