India's sports policy defective: Pargat Singh

GHAZIABAD:India's sports policy is defective, former Indian hockey captain Pargat Singh said on Wednesday, and urged New Delhi to emulate China.
Pargat Singh, a Padma Shri and Arjuna Award winner,a congress MLA in punjab,told the media that India should follow China's policy on promoting sports,and the policy was not realistic at the ground level players and the athlets should come from the school level.
In china ,10-15% of the budget was spent on three-tire sports promotion were 9 lakh children between the age of 3 and 13 are selected for sports.90,000 were taken to the specialist level and from these 9,000 were picked for super specialist sports
"only 07 per cent of the budget was allocated in India on sports and even this was spent in an absurd manner:, he said.
"Unfortunately commercial input in sports has maligned the basic core of sports."Pargat singh said.