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Economic Times
2 days ago
- Politics
- Economic Times
Bills on sports will help sportsmen improve performance in sporting events globally: Mansukh Mandaviya
Synopsis Parliament has approved two new sports bills aimed at enhancing India's performance in global sporting events. Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya stated that the National Anti-Doping (Amendment) Bill, 2025, and The National Sports Governance Bill, 2025, seek to improve coordination between sports federations, athletes, and the government, addressing issues like 'legal paralysis' and lack of accountability. ANI Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya New Delhi: Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday said the two new bills on sports, approved by Parliament, will help sportsmen improve their performance in sporting events globally. The National Anti-Doping (Amendment) Bill, 2025, and The National Sports Governance Bill, 2025, were passed by the Rajya Sabha by voice vote. These bills were earlier approved by the Lok these bills, the minister said federations governing various sports were embroiled in legal matters, terming the situation as 'legal paralysis'.He noted that the situation impacts the performance of the sports governance bill is meant to improve coordination between sports federations, athletes and the government. The minister noted that despite a young population, the country lags behind when it comes to medal tallies in global sporting events."We aspire to be in the first five positions in terms of medals, and for that, good governance in the sports sector is necessary," Mandaviya were also made earlier to bring legislation for improvement in sports administrations, but such attempts did not succeed, he Rami Reddy of YSRCP said every state and district needs to come up with a strategy for the welfare of the athletes, so that they can bring laurels to the bill brings clarity to state and district affiliates, he Patel of NCP noted that the legislation brought by the government was laudable and for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Jayant Chaudhary said federations will now be devoid of politicians and would be run by athletes and people who know about sports governance bill has provisions for a National Sports Board (NSB) to create a stringent system of accountability. All National Sports Federations (NSFs) will have to attain NSB's recognition for access to central government will have the mandate to derecognise a national body that fails to hold elections for its Executive Committee or has committed "gross irregularities in the election procedures".Sudha Murty (Nominated) requested that, along with the Anti-Doping Bill, awareness camps should be organised particularly in rural areas, where our children are bright, as they are getting a lot of opportunities to rise through Khelo India, but not knowing that doping is a bad habit, they may end up somewhere Jhala (BJP) said former governments never paid attention to the development of sports in the country, owing to policy paralysis and a lack of Jashvantsinh Salamsinh (BJP) said the Bill is necessary because the existing National Sports Code of 2011 was only a set of guidelines, not a binding law, and many national sports federations ignored these Sathish Babu (TDP) said the landmark Bills will ensure fair governance and Gupta, BJP, noted that the Bill will ensure fair competition and lead to the emergence of true talent without any Kalita (BJP) pointed out that the government has prioritised sports and youth affairs with a boost in their fund allocation."As the country eyes the 2036 Olympics, its journey towards becoming a top ten sporting nation is firmly on track," he to the national sports governance bill, a failure to publish annual audited accounts or "misuse, misapplied or misappropriated public funds" would also be liable for action by NSB, but it would be required to consult the concerned global body before making its move. Another feature is the proposal for a National Sports Tribunal, which will have the powers of a civil court and decide disputes ranging from selection to election, involving federations and athletes. Once instituted, the Tribunal's decisions can only be challenged in the Supreme Court. The bill makes some concessions on the issue of age cap for administrators by allowing those in the bracket of 70 to 75 to contest elections if the concerned international bodies' statutes and bylaws allow for it. It is a departure from the national sports code that capped the age limit at National Anti-Doping (Amendment) Bill-2025 seeks to incorporate the changes sought by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which objected to "government interference" in the functioning of the country's Anti-Doping Agency (NADA). The act was originally passed in 2022, but its implementation had to be put on hold due to objections raised by WADA.
Time of India
2 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Bills on sports will help sportsmen improve performance in sporting events globally: Mansukh Mandaviya
New Delhi: Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday said the two new bills on sports, approved by Parliament, will help sportsmen improve their performance in sporting events globally. The National Anti-Doping (Amendment) Bill, 2025, and The National Sports Governance Bill, 2025, were passed by the Rajya Sabha by voice vote. These bills were earlier approved by the Lok Sabha. 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The sports governance bill is meant to improve coordination between sports federations, athletes and the government. Live Events The minister noted that despite a young population, the country lags behind when it comes to medal tallies in global sporting events. "We aspire to be in the first five positions in terms of medals, and for that, good governance in the sports sector is necessary," Mandaviya said. Efforts were also made earlier to bring legislation for improvement in sports administrations, but such attempts did not succeed, he added. Ayodhya Rami Reddy of YSRCP said every state and district needs to come up with a strategy for the welfare of the athletes, so that they can bring laurels to the country. The bill brings clarity to state and district affiliates, he added. Praful Patel of NCP noted that the legislation brought by the government was laudable and necessary. Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Jayant Chaudhary said federations will now be devoid of politicians and would be run by athletes and people who know about sports. The sports governance bill has provisions for a National Sports Board (NSB) to create a stringent system of accountability. All National Sports Federations (NSFs) will have to attain NSB's recognition for access to central government funding. NSB will have the mandate to derecognise a national body that fails to hold elections for its Executive Committee or has committed "gross irregularities in the election procedures". Sudha Murty (Nominated) requested that, along with the Anti-Doping Bill, awareness camps should be organised particularly in rural areas, where our children are bright, as they are getting a lot of opportunities to rise through Khelo India, but not knowing that doping is a bad habit, they may end up somewhere else. Kesridevsinh Jhala (BJP) said former governments never paid attention to the development of sports in the country, owing to policy paralysis and a lack of vision. Parmar Jashvantsinh Salamsinh (BJP) said the Bill is necessary because the existing National Sports Code of 2011 was only a set of guidelines, not a binding law, and many national sports federations ignored these mandates. Sana Sathish Babu (TDP) said the landmark Bills will ensure fair governance and transparency. Dharmshila Gupta, BJP, noted that the Bill will ensure fair competition and lead to the emergence of true talent without any discrimination. Bhubaneswar Kalita (BJP) pointed out that the government has prioritised sports and youth affairs with a boost in their fund allocation. "As the country eyes the 2036 Olympics, its journey towards becoming a top ten sporting nation is firmly on track," he said. According to the national sports governance bill, a failure to publish annual audited accounts or "misuse, misapplied or misappropriated public funds" would also be liable for action by NSB, but it would be required to consult the concerned global body before making its move. Another feature is the proposal for a National Sports Tribunal , which will have the powers of a civil court and decide disputes ranging from selection to election, involving federations and athletes. Once instituted, the Tribunal's decisions can only be challenged in the Supreme Court. The bill makes some concessions on the issue of age cap for administrators by allowing those in the bracket of 70 to 75 to contest elections if the concerned international bodies' statutes and bylaws allow for it. It is a departure from the national sports code that capped the age limit at 70. The National Anti-Doping (Amendment) Bill-2025 seeks to incorporate the changes sought by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which objected to "government interference" in the functioning of the country's Anti-Doping Agency (NADA). The act was originally passed in 2022, but its implementation had to be put on hold due to objections raised by WADA.
New Indian Express
6 days ago
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Hall of shame as 260 Indian athletes test positive in 2024
CHENNAI: Even as the Anti-Doping Bill has been submitted in the Parliament, India are up for another big doping embarrassment yet again. The country that had been topping the world charts, has now seen a huge spike in positive cases. The number in 2024 stands at 260. This could be the highest number of positive doping cases in the country. This was revealed during a question hour session (Unstarred question No - 2231) in the Rajya Sabha. India's testing agency is National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA). Most of the athletes are all national and international level players. This after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had pointed out to Indian Olympic Association of its high number of doping positive cases and its subsequent impact on its Olympic 2036 bid. India have been topping the charts in the World Anti-Doping Agency figures both testing as well as Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV). India are already among the top nations when it comes to doping by junior athletes as well. However, the latest figure released by the ministry during the question hour could be the highest. Before this, the highest number stood at 225 in 2019. Rajya Sabha MP Imran Pratapgarhi asked the sports minister "whether Government is aware of the rising number of anti-doping rule violations involving Indian athletes in recent years; (b) number of athletes who tested positive for banned substances in the years 2021 to 2024, year-wise and sport-wise..." In reply, the sports minister said that the government is aware of "instances of anti-doping rule violations involving Indian athletes in recent years and is fully committed to curb the menace of doping in sports." The sports ministry's response stated that in 2024, there have been 260 positive cases, a sizeable jump from 213 in 2023. The samples tested in 2024 stood at 7466 and even this could be among the highest. Among the sports, once again athletics topped the list with 76 positive cases in 2024. This will be another headache for the Athletics Federation of India that has seen some top athletes testing positive in recent times both at home and abroad. One must take into consideration that athletics is one event that generates a high number of participants in events. Close behind is weightlifting with 43 positive cases in 2024, a considerable jump from 38 in 2023. Wrestling is another sport that has seen a very high number of positive cases — 29 in 2024. Boxing is another sport that is witnessing a rise in positive cases. The sport had 17 positive cases in 2024, almost double the figure of 2023 that stood at 9. This must be an area of grave concern for the sport that had not seen cases in double figures until 2024. This comes weeks after the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) published both their dope Testing Report (2023) and Anti-Doping Rule Violation statistics for the year 2021. The WADA 2023 Anti-Doping Testing Figures indicates that India had the maximum number of positive cases in terms of numbers and percentage. According to the report, the National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL) had tested 5412 urine samples out of which 212 returned positive while 477 blood samples had two adverse analytical findings (which is the number of positive tests before final adjudication — Anti-Doping Rule Violation). Going by the outcome of the testing agency report, there were 120 ADRVs after 125 failed dope tests (Adverse Analytical Finding) in 2022. According to the WADA executive report, Russia topped with 164 ADRVs while Italy followed India with 104.
