Lok Sabha Question No. 1182 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-02-09
Subject: Sports Infrastructure
Ministry: YOUTH AFFAIRS AND SPORTS
Asked by: M. I. SHANAVAS

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF YOUTH AFFAIRS & SPORTS (DEPARTMENT OF SPORTS)

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1182 TO BE ANSWERED ON 09.02.2017

## Sports Infrastructure

1182. SHRI M.I. SHANAVAS:

Will  the  Minister  of  YOUTH  AFFAIRS  AND  SPORTS  be  pleased  to state:

- (a) the number of sports schools/colleges functioning in the country with the support of Union Government, State/UT-wise including Kerala; and
- (b) the steps taken/being taken by the Government to ensure proper and optimum utilization of funds earmarked for sports infrastructure and sport activities in the country?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR YOUTH AFFAIRS & SPORTS (SHRI VIJAY GOEL)

- (a) The  Ministry  of  Youth  Affairs  &  Sports  is  not  implementing  any specific  scheme  for  supporting  sports  schools/colleges  in  States/UTs, including Kerala.
- (b) The  salient  steps  that  are  taken  by  the  Government  to  ensure proper  and  optimum  utilization  of  funds  released  for  creation  of  sports infrastructure and sport activities in the country are :
- i. Every sanction order for release of grants specifies the time limit within which the grant or each installment of it, is to be spent.
- ii. Every 2nd and subsequent installment of grant is conditional upon the  grantee  institutions  providing  reasonable  evidence  of  proper utilization of installments released earlier.
- iii. When recurring grants-in-aid are sanctioned to the same Institution or Organisation for the same purpose, the unspent balance of the previous grant is taken into account in sanctioning the subsequent grant.
- iv. After sanction  of  funds,  actual  release  of  grants  is  contingent  on the  grantee  accepting  the  terms  and  conditions  of  sanction  in writing.
- v. In case of failure to abide by the conditions of sanction, the grantee is  liable  to  refund  to  the  President  of  India,  the  whole  or  a  part amount  of  the  grant  with  interest  at  ten  per  cent  per  annum thereon.
- vi. The accounts of all grantee Institutions or Organisations are open to  inspection  by  the  sanctioning  authority  and  audit,  both  by  the Comptroller and Auditor General of India and internal audit by the Principal Accounts Office of the Ministry or Department, whenever the Institution or Organisation is called upon to do so,
- vii. A Utilization Certificate indicating actual utilization of funds for the purpose  for  which  it  was  sanctioned,  disclosing  whether  the specified, quantified and qualitative targets that should have been reached against the amount utilised, were in fact reached, and if not, the reasons  therefor, is insisted upon  for every 2nd or subsequent  instalment  as  well  as  after  release  final  instalment. Where such certificate is not received from the grantee within the prescribed  time,  the  Ministry  or  Department  will  be  at  liberty  to blacklist  such  Institution  or  Organisation  from  any  future  grant, subsidy or other type of financial support from the Government.
- viii. Release  of  any  amount  sanctioned  for  the  subsequent  financial year is done only after Utilization Certificate in respect of grants of preceding financial year is submitted.

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