Ep 238: The State of Indian Sport
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Is There a Way of Seeing Sport Go Forward Without the Need for the State?
We have this notion that if anything goes wrong in sport, it's the government's fault. What we haven't moved towards is the us model. Olympic and paralympic committee gets probably zero funding from the government. It is also all sponsor driven, all driven by private enterprise,. pushed up by university sport. Europe has club sport. We found micro enterprises. Wee found sponsors. Wee found boosters in different places. For us, other than the b c ci, some state governments are the funder of first resort and a funder of last resort. So i meat someone like runs with a bull and supposedly runs faster than wosen board, the sports ministers supposed to call him for
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