Sports talent hunt portal to be launched soon: Goel

TIL Desk Sports/ The Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports (independent charge) Vijay Goel today said his ministry will soon launch a web portal to find out talented sportsmen who can be groomed with proper training.

During his interaction with media in Gandhinagar today, Goel also said the Centre is committed to encourage sports culture in the country, said. “We will soon launch a sports talent hunt portal to find out talented sportsmen from across the country. We will provide them training as well as scholarships,” Goel was quoted.

The minister also informed that as per the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the sports Ministry has established various task forces to select and train sports-persons for the coming Olympics in 2020. Goel was in Gandhinagar today to lay foundation stone of the boundary wall of the country’s first Centre of Excellence for Differently Abled sports-persons.