New Delhi: Union Minister for Communications and Development of the North Eastern Region Jyotiraditya M. Scindia today called for a unified, human-resource–driven sports strategy for the Northeast at a High-Level Task Force meeting chaired by Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla.
Scindia said the region must adopt a “60–40 model”—with 60% investment in coaches, talent scouting and tech-enabled training, and 40% in infrastructure—to build a sustainable high-performance ecosystem. “Facilities exist; what we need is advanced coaching and standards-driven training,” he said, adding that MDoNER will fully support the effort.
Reinforcing the “One Sport, One State” framework, Scindia asked six states to submit focused micro-proposals: Mizoram (Football), Manipur (Boxing & Weightlifting), Tripura (Judo), Meghalaya (Archery), Nagaland (Archery & Taekwondo), and Sikkim (Taekwondo). The proposals will be jointly developed by State Sports Ministers and Secretaries with MoS Sports Raksha Khadse and Secretary, Department of Sports, GoI, Hariranjan Rao.
Scindia urged states to build a bottom-up sports calendar from pre-school to university level, backed by inter-state exposure and exchange programmes. He emphasised identifying common strengths—football, archery, judo, taekwondo, weightlifting—to develop sport-specific plans with clear accountability.
The meeting, attended by senior officials from Assam, Mizoram and Meghalaya, laid the groundwork for a coordinated Northeast sports strategy aimed at transforming the region into a national powerhouse of high-performance sport and a key contributor to the Viksit Bharat 2047 vision.
