Too late and not enough and dedicated to getting Top players an Olympic quota. Stipend of merely 50K.
Discussion is on the grass root level of training in district level > state level > national level. If a player is identified young with brilliant sports talent, then the basic training at various levels should be either govt funded or highly subsidized.
another way to look at the same inference..
TOPS is an outcome of lobbying done by sports personalities in 2014, because it is central gormint related, negotiations must have happened with one set of bureaucrats.
is there scope for improvement? yes.
are we sure, similar focus will be given in next gormint? we don't know.
now for grassroots, similar exercise has to happen at state levels. state level means lobbying with 30 different sets of gormint babus.
but it is not the case that nothing else exists.
- odisha state govt is the patron for hockey.
- telugu states is patron for badminton.
- haryana is patron for wrestling.
- jharkhand is patron for archery(not sure).
etc. etc
it is not a case of binary, all or nothing. whatever progress that needs to be made, has to be built on existing base.
but ideal scenario seems to be, sports personalities coming up a proposals for other grassroots levels to fill the gaps within their own domains, which keeps gormint's role minimal outside of infra and financing.