'Khelo India' revamped to encourage Sports in India

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Wed, Sep 20, 2017, 05:44 PM

Khelo India revamped to encourage Sports in India

New Delhi, Sept 20: Union Cabinet under the chairmanship of PM Modi has taken a slew of cabinet decisions today.

Bonus to Railway Employees:

Cabinet has approved Non-gazetted railway staff to get 78 days of productivity linked-bonus ahead of the festival for the year 2016.

Special Industry Initiative for Jammu and Kashmir
A Special Industry Initiative for Jammu and Kashmir called Udaan has been extended by a year to December 31, 2018. The aim of the scheme is to skill and employee youth in the state with corporate houses.

ICDS price increase:



The prices of Food supplied to pregnant, Child Women and Lactating women under ICDS have been increased due to the inflation. The prices are as follows

Child food Rs. 8 (earlier Rs 6 )

Adolescent and Pregnant women RS 9.50 (earlier RS 7)

Severely Malnutritioned - Rs 12 (earlier Rs 9 ).

The government will spend an additional expenditure of RS 9900 crore for 3 years.

Revamp of Khelo India:

The program will ensure personality development, players development. All students who play sports and physical growth between 10-18 years will be mapped. A grading system would be developed and schools would be graded.

All sports facilities including private and government would be mapped along with Geographic locations so that sports players and other can utilize the services. Sports and education would be linked by creating sports facilities in colleges and schools

Under national sports talent search, national level competition would be conducted for School and college level so that they can advance to Asian games and Olympic games. All sports would be linked with APP for the benefit of citizens and players.