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Patiala
is the peg
Shift
Rift
The proposal to relocate the
National Institute of Sports from Patiala to Bangalore and set up a
defence university in its place has not found favour with the sports
fraternity. Ravi Dhaliwal from Patiala
gives reasons why it is unfeasible to relocate the premier institute, Jangveer
Singh reports that Bangalore is far from an alternative, and M.
S. Unnikrishnan finds out the Sports Authority of India’s
stance on the issue
THE
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh’s announcement in December
last year that the Union Government was seriously considering the
setting up of a defence university in place of the NIS, a vibrant
sports body and widely perceived to be Asia’s premier sports
institute, has opened a hot debate among sports administrators in the
region.
SAI not game for move
M.S. Unnikrishnan
PUNJAB
Chief Minister Amarinder Singh may nurse the ambition to turn NIS
Patiala into a defence university, but the Sports Authority of India
(SAI) will have none of it. It has, in fact, big plans to upgrade the
infrastructure there to make it a "focal point" for the
coaching programme of the Indian sportspersons for the 2010
Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
Pressed for space
Jangveer Singh
SUGGESTIONS
of national sports activities being shifted to Bangalore in case the
NIS, Patiala, becomes a defence university as is being touted by
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh are met with preposterous stares
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