Ques: Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports recognizes ‘Yoga’ in which category of sports?
a. General
b. Priority
c. Other
d. None of the above
Ans: b
Related facts:
- The Sports Ministry on 1 September, 2015 recognized yoga as a sports discipline and placed it in the ‘priority’ category alongside disciplines like football, swimming, squash and chess, among others.
- These sports will also receive financial assistance to conduct national championships and one international tournament in India per year.
- Notable that, as per the UN General Assembly resolution A/RES/69/131 on December 11, 2015, the First International Yoga Day was celebrated on 21 June, 2015.
- It has now been decided by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports that sports disciplines included in the multidiscipline mega events like Olympics, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games etc and which have obtained a ranking up to 8th in individual events and up to 10th in team events in Olympics/Asian Games/CWG or their respective Asian and World Championships shall be placed in ‘General’ category.
- Financial assistance for this category will be as under:-
- National Championships are to be funded.
- One international event in India in a year can be funded.
- Maximum of one foreign exposure each in Senior & Junior categories can also be funded during a year.
- Based on the past performance in major international events, it has been decided to upgrade the sport of Fencing from ‘Others’ to ‘General’ category.
- It has also been decided to place ‘University Sports’ in the ‘Priority’ category.
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