{"id":32896,"date":"2017-02-01T14:33:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=32896"},"modified":"2017-02-01T14:33:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:33:49","slug":"sports-budget-hiked-by-rs-351-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=32896","title":{"rendered":"Sports budget hiked by RS. 351 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-32895\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Arun-Jaitley.jpg\" alt=\"Arun Jaitley\" width=\"520\" height=\"340\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Arun-Jaitley.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Arun-Jaitley-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Arun-Jaitley-150x98.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday allocated Rs. 1943.21 crore to the ministry of youth affairs and sports for 2017-18 fiscal, an increase of Rs 351 crore from the last financial year.<\/p>\n<p>For the 2016-17 year, the sports ministry was earmarked Rs.1592 crore.<\/p>\n<p>The Khelo India scheme is a major beneficiary, getting Rs. 350 crore as against last fiscal year&#8217;s Rs. 140 crore. Assistance to Promotion of Sports Excellence also got Rs 312.8 crore, a hike of Rs. 122 crore.<\/p>\n<p>The Sports Authority of India (SAI), the nodal agency for sports in the country, has got a major share of the budget, with Rs 481 crore being allocated, compared to last year&#8217;s Rs 416 crore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:&nbsp;<a href=\"cricket-news\/44099-sc-to-hear-bcci-plea-on-icc-participation\">SC to hear BCCI plea on ICC participation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, there has been no change in the Rs. 75 crore allocation for sports in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>The National Service Scheme has got Rs. 144 crore in place of Rs. 137.50 crore in 2016-2017 fiscal.<\/p>\n<p>The assistance to national sports federations has been increased to Rs. 302.18 crore from Rs. 185 crore.<\/p>\n<p>India will take part in the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games in 2018 and that has played a part in the sports budget hike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-32895\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Arun-Jaitley.jpg\" alt=\"Arun Jaitley\" width=\"520\" height=\"340\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Arun-Jaitley.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Arun-Jaitley-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Arun-Jaitley-150x98.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday allocated Rs. 1943.21 crore to the ministry of youth affairs and sports for 2017-18 fiscal, an increase of Rs 351 crore from the last financial year.<\/p>\n<p>For the 2016-17 year, the sports ministry was earmarked Rs.1592 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1070,466,20003,1880],"class_list":["post-32896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-other-news","tag-arun-jaitley","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-other-sports-news","tag-sports-authority-of-india"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sports budget hiked by RS. 351 crore - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=32896\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sports budget hiked by RS. 351 crore - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday allocated Rs. 1943.21 crore to the ministry of youth affairs and sports for 2017-18 fiscal, an increase of Rs 351 crore from the last financial year. 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