Question : DEVELOPMENT OF SPORTS

(a) whether the Government has taken cognizance of the acute shortage of sports infrastructure, equipments, etc. in the country including in rural areas;

(b) if so, the number of proposals regarding sports projects/ infrastructure like construction/maintenance/upgradation of stadia, play grounds etc. and other sports facilities received by the Union Government from the various States for the development and promotion of sports alongwith the action taken thereon during each of the last three years and the current year, State-wise;

(c) the number of such proposals still pending alongwith the reasons therefor and the time by which the pending proposals are likely to cleared, State-wise;

(d) the details of funds allocated/released to the State Governments and the expenditure incurred for the said purpose during the said period under the various schemes, scheme-wise and State-wise; and

(e) the number of sportspersons in the country including rural areas benefited from the sports facilities provided by the Government during the said period, State-wise?

THE MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR YOUTH AFFAIRS & SPORTS (SHRI AJAY MAKEN)

(a) Yes, Madam.

(b) & (c) Proposals are received from the State Governments under two schemes viz., Panchayat Yuva Krida Aur Khel Abhiyan (PYKKA), which was introduced in 2008-09, for development of playfields and conduct of annual sports competitions, and Urban Sports Infrastructure Scheme (USIS), which was introduced in 2010-11, for upgradation/modernization of sports infrastructure facilities, respectively. Proposals under USIS are considered and cleared on the basis of relative merits subject to availability of funds.

Number of proposals received complete in all respects as per the conditions laid down under ‘Panchayat Yuva Krida Aur Khel Abhiyan(PYKKA) scheme, from the State Governments for development of playfields and conduct of annual competitions and action taken thereon on such proposals during the last three years and current year upto 29.2.2012 are as follows:-

S.No	Year	Development of	Conduct of annual	playfields	competitions
Number of	Amount	Number of	Amount	proposals	released	proposals	released	received from	(Rs. in crore)	received from	(Rs. in crore)	States and	States and	approved	approved
1.	2008-09	24	83.85	5	5.93
2.	2009-10	07	105.00	18	24.91
3.	2010-11#	20	260.84	42	88.05#
4.	2011-12	5	119.97	25	33.43	(upto 29.02.12)
Total	56	569.66	90	152.32

S. No.	Year	No. of proposals	Amount released	received from the	(Rs. in crore)	States and approved
1	2010-11	4	12.50
2	2011-12	5	20.62
Total	9	33.12