MADURAI: Madurai MP Su Venkatesan has opposed the choice of the railways at hand over 15 railway stadiums and sports activities complexes to Rail Land Growth Authority (RLDA) for business growth and privatisation.
In a letter to railway minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday, the MP said that the transfer of the Railway Board within the letter dated Could 18, 2021, with regard to the sports activities complexes is anti-people and anti-national. “It contains the Integral Coach Manufacturing facility floor in Chennai,” he stated.
Venkatesan stated that Indian Railways is the one largest sports activities entity having 50% worldwide gamers and one third of medal winners. “Most of them are from the backward and weaker sections of the society who sprung up in sports activities and introduced laurels to India resulting from accessibility of sports activities services and infrastructure in Indian Railways to widespread workers,” he stated.
The MP identified that M S Dhoni and P T Usha had been drawn from the ticket checking class. He famous that 13 of the 21 Olympic medals India gained are by sportspersons within the railways. Railways additionally produced Arjun awardees like Sushil Kumar (wrestling), Baskaran (hockey), S Baskaran (bodybuilding), Vellasamy (weightlifting), Rajarathnam (kabaddi), Jaganathan (desk tennis) and Tamil Selvan (bodybuilding).
“All these have been potential due to free accessibility of enormous sports activities infrastructure to widespread women and men workers within the railways, which is in any other case not obtainable them. Amidst the pandemic, two days in the past Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed preparedness of our athletes who’re making ready for the Tokyo Olympics. The transfer of the railways is opposite to the significance given by the PM for sports activities growth,” he advised TOI.
He stated 15 stadiums had been talked about within the Railway Board letter.
In a letter to railway minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday, the MP said that the transfer of the Railway Board within the letter dated Could 18, 2021, with regard to the sports activities complexes is anti-people and anti-national. “It contains the Integral Coach Manufacturing facility floor in Chennai,” he stated.
Venkatesan stated that Indian Railways is the one largest sports activities entity having 50% worldwide gamers and one third of medal winners. “Most of them are from the backward and weaker sections of the society who sprung up in sports activities and introduced laurels to India resulting from accessibility of sports activities services and infrastructure in Indian Railways to widespread workers,” he stated.
The MP identified that M S Dhoni and P T Usha had been drawn from the ticket checking class. He famous that 13 of the 21 Olympic medals India gained are by sportspersons within the railways. Railways additionally produced Arjun awardees like Sushil Kumar (wrestling), Baskaran (hockey), S Baskaran (bodybuilding), Vellasamy (weightlifting), Rajarathnam (kabaddi), Jaganathan (desk tennis) and Tamil Selvan (bodybuilding).
“All these have been potential due to free accessibility of enormous sports activities infrastructure to widespread women and men workers within the railways, which is in any other case not obtainable them. Amidst the pandemic, two days in the past Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed preparedness of our athletes who’re making ready for the Tokyo Olympics. The transfer of the railways is opposite to the significance given by the PM for sports activities growth,” he advised TOI.
He stated 15 stadiums had been talked about within the Railway Board letter.