With a view to prepare athletes and teams for forthcoming London Olympics, the Department of Sports has launched Project ‘Operation Excellence for London Olympics 2012’ (OPEX 2012) under which core are being identified and they are being provided comprehensive and intensive training, both within country and abroad and competition exposure in international sports competitions.
in certain areas such as lodging, nutrition, scientific support and daily allowance, the budget has been estimated at Rs.258.39 for the period April 2011 to August 2012 ), boarding and food supplements (Rs. 36.95 ), lodging (Rs. 49.74 ), scientific & medical support (Rs. 5.06 ), consumable sports equipment including competition kit (Rs. 18.58 ), non-consumable sports equipment (Rs. 4.37 ), Indian coaches (Rs. 2.91 ), foreign coaches (Rs. 20.00 ), support personnel (Rs. 7.84 ), foreign competition and training exposure (Rs. 75.45 ), competition exposure within India (Rs. 19.18 ) and sports kit (Rs. 3.80 ). Discipline-wise details of estimated expenditure are below.
on preparations + Rupees 20 for foreign Coaches = Total Rupees 258.39
, Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Boxing, CanoeCycling,Equestrian, Fencing, Football, Gymnastics, Handball, Hockey, Judo, Modern Pentathlon,Rowing, Sailing, Shooting, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Tennis, Triathlon Volleyball, Weightlifting and Wrestling.The participation of athletes in London Olympics, 2012 will be on the basis of performance in pre-qualifying competitions.So, participation of Indian sportspersons from various disciplines will be on the basis of qualifying London Olympics, 2012.So far, 15 sportspersons (5 from athletics, 8 from shooting and 2 from swimming) have qualified for participation in London Olympics, 2012
This was stated by Shri Ajay , Minister of State (I/C) for Youth Affairs & Sports, in the today, in a written reply to a question by Shri Mohan Singh.