Chennai: The session of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly started on 20th June (Thursday) and the question time and discussion on departmental grant requests is going on. In this, the respective ministers are making important announcements about their respective departments.
Speaking on behalf of the Sports Department today, Sports Minister Udayanidhi Stalin mentioned the various announcements implemented by the Tamil Nadu Sports Department. Out of which, 12 players from Tamil Nadu participated in the last Olympic Games. They were then given a special incentive of Rs 5 lakh.
This time, 16 people from Tamil Nadu have been selected to participate in the Paris Olympics. He announced that this time the special incentive will be increased to 7 lakh rupees.
Also, international chess tournaments were held in Chennai at a cost of 2 crore rupees. As a result, Tamil Nadu player Gukesh achieved various achievements at a young age. 3 percent reservation is being given in government sector, government public sector to the players who achieve at state, national and international level. 7 soldiers were recruited through this.
An international standard hockey ground has been set up at the Radhakrishnan Indoor Stadium in Chennai at a cost of 10 crore rupees. An artificial runway has been set up by allocating 8 crore rupees to run Calo India in Chennai. All over Tamil Nadu, sports facilities were upgraded at a cost of Rs 355 crore.
It is planned to set up a mini stadium in every constituency and in the first phase, steps have been taken to set up a mini stadium in 9 assembly constituencies.
The Chief Minister had already announced that an international stadium would be set up in Coimbatore. For that, the site survey work has been started. Sports Minister Udayanidhi Stalin mentioned various announcements in the Legislative Assembly that the work will be started within this year.
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