Sahara had been sponsoring Indian Cricket team and tournaments for over 11 years. According to Sahara Chief Subrata Roy it will now support other games of the country by setting up a Sahara Welfare Foundation for them. The Foundation will be run by the eminent people of the respective fields and Rs. 500 crore has immediately been allocated for the purpose. The fund will support cricket too but in a different way.

This the biggest shooting team for Olympics in the last three decades. Nine shooters form India participated in Beijing Olympics, 2008.

According to the Ministry of Sports 14.40 crore has been spent on shooters training and their exposure for London Olympics.

Rahul Dravid, his partner in the match, and whole spectators congratulated him on the occasion.

India’s shooting champion Abhinav Bindra and top women boxer Mary Kom will unveil an Omega Countdown Clock for London Olympic. The Countdown Clock will tick away the days, hours, minutes and seconds to the beginning of the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics inaugural event 27 July next year.

Abhinav Bindra and Mary Kom, along with Deputy High Commissioner, Julian Evans and Director, British Council, Rob Lynes will unveil the Clock.

“There is now just one year to go until the eyes of the world focus on London and the 2012 Olympics. Excitement is mounting. Here in India we are getting into the spirit by unveiling the Olympic clock which will countdown to the grand opening. We are delighted that our Indian friends are joining in with such enthusiasm,” Deputy High Commissioner Julian Evans said

“As the countdown begins, we will be running a series of events and activities to celebrate the greatest sporting event in the world. We will be working closely with enthusiastic young audiences in India and the UK, not to mention Abhinav Bindra and Mary Kom’s schools which are already linked to our schools programme,” Director, British Council (India), Rob Lynes said.

British High Commission has also organised an online quiz competition in India to celebrate the countdown to the ‘One Year to Go’ milestone.

These include determining the facts and circumstances leading to large scale recent incidents of alleged doping in Athletics discipline, examining reasons, role of any agency in it and remedial measures to improve the situation.
The committee has been told to submit its report within six weeks.

These summer camps are actually factory of sportspersons of the country. Several budding players of national and international level emerged during the camp, says a player who attended the summer camp earlier. Though there are several schools in the capital to provide training to the budding sportsperson in their campus but the summer camp is completely different. Here a candidate meet other candidates with different calibers and get real competition.

“It is encouraging that a good number of girl students too participate in such camps from Delhi’s schools. Earlier their participation was limited to schools only”, says Rakesh Mohan, Principal Secretary (Education), Delhi.

“We used to get 125 to 150 budding players having potential to represent the state at national and international level through these camps. Depending upon the requirements we send such selected candidates for further training at SAI and other training centres for advanced training”, says Satpal, Chief Co-ordinator (Sports) and Additional Director, Education, Delhi.

There are government coaches and trainers to train the people. But this time several new sportspersons too join them to provide them training, he adds. These include winners of Asian Games and Commonwealth Games. This will help the newcomers to understand international standard of sports.

“Delhi government will present certificates soon to all the award winner sportspersons”, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said during an award ceremony, organised recently at Delhi Seretariat. She also exhorted all the sportspersons to provide training to students and budding players of Delhi so that they (budding players) could maintain Delhi’s legacy.

“You (players) are real heroes and heroines for us”, Chief Minister said while motivating them to train the new generation of sportspersons.

The sportspersons include Ronjon Sodhi, Manavjeet Singh Sandhu, Samresh Jung, Mansher Singh, Sonia Rai, Deepak Sharma, Vikram Bhatnagar in Shooting, Shushil Kumar, Ravinder Kumar, Yogeshwar Dutt, Joginder Kumar, Anil Kumar, Dharmender Dalal, in wrestling, Pooja Sharma, Rakesh Kumar, Manjit Chhillar, Anoop Kumar, Navneet Gautam in Kabaddi.

“It is a good step. We used to get memento, medals, cash prizes from the government but not the certificate. This is first time that any government or government organization is planning to give us certificate”, Pooja Sharma, an awardee and player of Indian Women Kabaddi team at Asian Games in China, told fachcha.com. Pooja was the only player from Delhi in the team.

“We can not carry our medals or cash prizes everywhere. But we can carry our certificates, says Joginder Kumar.

However, it is not clear that certificate will be given to their coaches too. But senior officials of the Delhi Government say that certificates will be prepared for both sportspersons as well as their coach who received cash prizes during the ceremony on 18th April.

Coaches were awarded of Rs. five lakh each for their ability to train and produce international level sportspersons. These include Satpal, Ramphal Mann, Ashok Kumar, Wing Commandar Jaikishan, Yashvir Singh, Rajbir Singh, Satnarain Sharma, Ved Prakash and Ranbir Singh.

Unveiling plan “Come and Play” to utilize newly constructed and renovated stadia in the capital for training and coaching for school children and budding players during the coming summer vacation the sports minister said that SAI will deploy 70 coaches for different sports to provide training to these players.

He said that the plan is implemented on the basis of recommendations made by a committee of top players like P T Usha, Dilip Tirkey, Bichung Bhutia and others. He also announced to develop J L N Stadium and Talkatora Swimming Pool Complex as “Centre of excellence