KATHMANDU, JUNE 14
Minister of Education, Science, and Technology Devendra Paudel has said arrangement has been made to provide budget to 171 local levels in the coming fiscal year for the construction of sports infrastructure.
Responding to queries raised by lawmakers over the Appropriation Bill in today's meeting of the House of Representatives, Minister Paudel said that a proposal had been presented to provide budget to 171 local units in the coming fiscal year by giving continuity to sports infrastructure as per the government's policy of constructing one sports infrastructure in one local level.
He further said the concept of sports insurance had been developed for the coming fiscal year for the protection and development of players as well as arrangement of budget to make the medical centre systematic in order to carry out treatment of injured players.
Arrangement of budget for various issues, including player life insurance, player and training health insurance, player incentive award and allowance to Olympic players, has been made this year to encourage players.
Minister Paudel, on the behalf of the Minister of Youth and Sports Maheshwor Jung Gahatraj, responded to the queries of lawmakers on issues related to Youth and Sports as Minister Gahatraj is on foreign trip.
On the occasion, the education minister opined that one school, one sports would be developed from school level for the development of the sports sector.
A version of this article appears in the print on June 15, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
