Lok Sabha Question No. 1734 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-07-29
Subject: Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay National Welfare Fund
Ministry: YOUTH AFFAIRS AND SPORTS
Asked by: Raja Amareshwara Naik, Rajveer (Raju Bhaiya) Singh, Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo, Sukanta Majumdar, Jayanta Kumar Roy, Vinod Kumar Sonkar, Bhola Singh

## MINISTRY OF YOUTH AFFAIRS & SPORTS

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (DEPARTMENT OF SPORTS)

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1734 TO BE ANSWERED ON 29.07.2021

Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay National Welfare Fund

1734. Shri Raja Amareshwara Naik:

Shri Rajveer Singh (Raju Bhaiya):

Shrimati Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo:

Dr. Sukanta Majumdar:

Dr. Jayanta Kumar Roy:

Shri Vinod Kumar Sonkar:

Shri Bhola Singh:

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

- (a)  whether  the  Government  has  set  up  Pandit  Deendayal  Upadhyay National Welfare Fund for sportspersons to assist outstanding sportspersons of yesteryear living in indigent circumstances who had brought glory to the country in sports;
- (b)  if  so,  the  details  thereof  including  sportspersons  who  received financial help during the last three years, State-wise;
- (c)  whether  the  Ministry  of  Youth  Affairs  and  Sports  (MoYAS)  and YuWaah  (Generation  Unlimited  India)  signed  on  a  partnership  to empower young people in India and if so, the details thereof;
- (d)  whether  the  MoYAS  launched  campaign  Cheer  India  with  Indian Railways to encourage and cheer the Olympics-bound athletes and if so, the details thereof;
- (e) the steps being taken by the Government in this regard; and
- (f) whether the Ministry of Youth Affairs has signed collaboration with UN  to  develop  the  potential  of  young  people  through  meaningful engagement and participation in social, civic and community initiatives and if so, the details thereof and other steps being taken by the Government in this regard?

## THE MINISTER FOR YOUTH AFFAIRS AND SPORTS

## ANSWER [SHRI ANURAG SINGH THAKUR]

- (a) Yes, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay  National Welfare Fund for Sportspersons (PDUNWFS) was set up in 1982 by the Government to provide  assistance  to  outstanding  sportspersons  living  in  indigent circumstances, families of deceased sportspersons, for medical treatment  to  sportspersons  or  family  members,  to  sportspersons injured  during  training  or  participation  in  sports  competitions,  to sportspersons  for  training  and  for  procurement  of  equipment  or  for participation  in  national  and  international  sports  events,  to  coaches and  support  personnel  or  their  family  members  and  for  medical treatment to coaches and support personnel or their family members.
- (b)  The  sportspersons  who  were  given  financial  assistance  during each  of  the  last  three  years  (as  on  05.07.2021)  is  enclosed  at Annexure 'I'.
- (c)    Yes.  Ministry  of  Youth  Affairs  &  Sports  and  United  Nations Children's  Emergency  Fund  (UNICEF)  have  signed  a  'Statement  of Intent'  on  20.07.2020  to  establish  YuWaah,  Generation  Unlimited (GenU),  a  global  multi-stakeholder  platform  in  India.  As  per  the Statement of Intent, the objectives of this project are:
-   Support young people by providing entrepreneurship classes (online and  offline)  with  successful  entrepreneurs  and  experts,  towards establishing entrepreneurial mindset among young people.
-   Upskilling  of  young  people  on  21 st  century skills, life skills, digital skills  through  online  and  offline  channels  and  support  them  through self-learning, for their productive lives and the future of work.
-   Create linkages with aspirational economic opportunities to connect  young  people  with employment  opportunities, including building pathways to connect them with jobs or self-employment. For this, innovative solutions and technology platforms will be engaged to maximize the scale and reach.
-   Providing career guidance support to young people through career portal as well as through job-readiness and self-exploration sessions to make young people career-ready.

The role  of  Department  of  Youth  Affairs  in  this  project  is  to  provide relevant  experts  to  participate  on  the  YuWaah  Technical  Working Groups/ Task Forces.

- (d)  &  (e)  Ministry  of  Youth  Affairs  and  Sports  (MYAS)  and  Indian Olympic  Association (IOA)  have jointly launched  the nationwide campaign 'Cheer4india' with Indian Railways to boost the morale of Tokyo 2020 Olympic-bound Indian contingent and with the objective to sensitize people of the Nation about Olympics.

## The campaign includes:

- (1) Olympics Quiz- 'Road to Tokyo 2020'
- (2) Fan Engagement Drive activities like
3. (a) Selfie Points
4. (b) Best Slogan/Digital poster contest
5. (c) Theme song for Indian contingent
6. (d) Social media filters etc.
- (3) Olympics Symposiums and Dialogues

A  call  was  given  by  Ministry  of  Youth  Affairs  &  Sports  to  all  the Ministries/Departments/State Governments as well as private partners to become a part of the Cheer4India campaign and support our Indian athletes as one Nation.

(f) Yes. Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports (MoYAS) and United Nations Development  Programme  (UNDP)  /  United  Nations  Volunteers  (UNV) agreed  on  strengthening  youth  volunteering  in  India  through  a  joint project titled 'Strengthening of Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) and National Service Scheme(NSS)'. The project is aimed at providing catalytic support to the Youth Volunteer Schemes of the MoYAS and intended  to  facilitate  youth  participation  and  voice  in  peace  and sustainable development programmes in order to realize of full social, economic and human potential of youth. The primary objectives of the Project are:

- (i)         Strengthen National Youth Volunteer Infrastructure of Department of Youth Affairs (DoYA);
- (ii)       Strengthen capacity of rural youth clubs for increased and diversified opportunities for youth volunteers;
- (iii)      Increase participation, recognition and contribution of youth volunteers in development process.

The  project  'Strengthening  NYKS  and  NSS'  adopted  a  collaborative approach and included key partners in designing and implementing it.

Further, Department of Youth Affairs had been releasing India's annual voluntary  contribution  to  UNDP/UNV  since  2007-08  as  India's  annual voluntary contribution. The United Nations Volunteer (UNV) Programme was created by the United Nations  General Assembly in 1970  with  the  objective  to  provide  developing  countries  with  an additional source of qualified and trained manpower at low cost and opportunity  to  young  professionals  from  all  nations  to  take  part  in development activities worldwide.

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## ANNEXURE 'I'

Annexure referred to in reply to part (b) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1734 for answer on 29.07.2021 regarding Pandit Deendayal  Upadhyay  National  Welfare  Fund  asked  by  Shri  Raja Amareshwara Naik, Shri Rajveer Singh (Raju Bhaiya), Shrimati Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo, Dr. Sukanta Majumdar, Dr. Jayanta Kumar Roy, Shri Vinod Kumar Sonkar and Shri Bhola Singh

|   S. No. | Financial Year   | Name of the Sportsperson with Discipline                            | State/UT       | Sanctioned Amount (Rs)   |
|----------|------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------|--------------------------|
|        1 |                  | Shri Mohammad Habib , Football                                      | Andhra Pradesh | 5,00,000                 |
|        2 | 2017-18          | Shri N.K. Mishra, Volleyball                                        | Rajasthan      | 5,00,000                 |
|        3 |                  | Shri Kaur Singh, Boxing                                             | Punjab         | 5,00,000                 |
|        4 |                  | Family of Late Ms Nitisha Negi, Football                            | Delhi          | 5,00,000                 |
|        5 |                  | Ms Gohela Boro, Archery                                             | Assam          | 3,37,500                 |
|        6 |                  | Family of Late Master Praveen, Hockey trainee at STC Bhopal- Hockey | Haryana        | 2,00,000                 |
|        7 | 2018-19          | Shri N. Brij Kishore, Gymnastics                                    | Telangana      | 6,00,000                 |
|        8 |                  | Family of Shri Sumit Rabha, Football                                | Assam          | 5,00,000                 |
|        9 |                  | Ms Khaidem Kalambia Chanu, Fencing                                  | Assam          | 5,00,000                 |
|       10 |                  | Shri Lakshmi Kanta Das, Weightlifting                               | West Bengal    | 2,00,000                 |
|       11 |                  | Shri Limba Ram, Archery                                             | Rajasthan      | 5,00,000                 |
|       12 |                  | Ms GohelaBoro,                                                      | Assam          | 5,00,000                 |
|       13 |                  | Shri Ashok Soren,                                                   | Jharkhand      | 5,00,000                 |

|    |         | Archery                                  |                 |           |
|----|---------|------------------------------------------|-----------------|-----------|
| 14 |         | Ms Garima Joshi, Athletics               | Uttarakhand     | 5,00,000  |
| 15 |         | Shri Prem Lal, Wrestling                 | Delhi           | 5,00,000  |
| 16 |         | Shri Hakam Singh, Athletics              | Punjab          | 10,00,000 |
| 17 |         | Ms Vandana Suryavanshi, Judo             | Madhya Pradesh  | 3,00,000  |
| 18 |         | Shri G. Lakshaman, Athletics             | Kerala          | 10,00,000 |
| 19 | 2019-20 | Shri Madasu Srinivas Rao, Para Badminton | Telangana       | 5,00,000  |
| 20 |         | Shri Limba Ram, Archery                  | Rajasthan       | 5,00,000  |
| 21 |         | Ms Chandro Devi Tomar                    | Uttar           | 5,00,000  |
| 22 |         | Shri Renjith Maheshwari                  | Tamil Nadu      | 2,20,000  |
| 23 |         | Ms Veera Pal Kaur, Athletics             | Punjab          | 1,50,000  |
| 24 |         | Ms Mithula U.K. , Badminton              | Karnataka       | 10,00,000 |
| 25 |         | Shri J. Pitchayya, Ball Badminton        | Telangana       | 5,00,000  |
| 26 |         | Shri Ansh Yadav, Athletics               | Uttar Pradesh   | 10,00,000 |
| 27 |         | Ms Inshah Bashir, Basketball (Para)      | Jammu & Kashmir | 50,000    |
| 28 |         | Shri Sanjay Singh, Wushu                 | Haryana         | 1,00,000  |
| 29 |         | Ms Saly George, Volleyball               | Kerala          | 2,50,000  |
| 30 |         | Ms GohelaBoro, Archery                   | Assam           | 1,62,415  |
| 31 |         | Ms Inshah Bashir, Basketball (Para)      | Jammu & Kashmir | 6,00,000  |
| 32 |         | M. Murali, Archery                       | Telangana       | 3,00,000  |
| 33 |         | Deepak Rathee, Wrestling                 | Haryana         | 1,00,000  |

|   34. |         | Novy Kapadia, Sports Commentator         | Delhi          | 4,00,000   |
|-------|---------|------------------------------------------|----------------|------------|
|    35 | 2020-21 | Ms. Pragati, Archery                     | Delhi          | 5,00,000   |
|    36 |         | Shri Madasu Srinivas Rao, Para Athletics | Andhra Pradesh | 5,00,000   |
|    37 |         | Shri Jitender Kumar Sharma, Athletics    | Allahabad      | 5,00,000   |
|    38 |         | Ms. Amritpal Kaur, Athletics             | Delhi          | 3,00,000   |
|    39 |         | Ms. Shiksha, Wushu                       | Haryana        | 5,00,000   |
|    40 |         | Ms. Neha, Athletics                      | Delhi          | 2,50,000   |
|    41 |         | Shri. Sunil Chauhan, Boxing              | Uttar Pradesh  | 5,00,000   |
|    42 |         | Shri. Neeraj Chauhan, Archery            | Uttar Pradesh  | 5,00,000   |
|    43 |         | Shri Abhinav Shaw, Shooting              | West Bengal    | 2,50,000   |
|    44 |         | Shri Chintu Singh, Shooting              | Rajasthan      | 2,50,000   |
|    45 |         | Shri Shuman Kumar, Shooting              | Bihar          | 2,50,000   |
|    46 |         | Ms. Pongshumbam Ronibala Devi, Football  | Manipur        | 5,00,000   |
|    47 |         | Shri Monu, Wrestling                     | Sonipat        | 3,00,000   |
|    48 |         | Shri. Mohinder Pal, Singh, Hockey        | New Delhi      | 10,00,000  |
|    49 |         | Shri Parveen, Wrestling                  | Israna         | 3,00,000   |
|    50 |         | Shri Satpal, Wrestling                   | Sonipat        | 2,00,000   |
|    51 |         | Shri Pawan, Wrestling                    | Sonipat        | 2,00,000   |
|    52 |         | Shri Pardeep Sharma, Wrestling           | Panipat        | 2,00,000   |
|    53 |         | Shri Anil Shetty, Body Building          | Maharashtra    | 2,00,000   |
|    54 |         | Shri Swaran Singh, International Cyclist | Jharkhand      | 2,50,000   |
|    55 |         | Shri Ashok Kumar, Wrestling              | New Delhi      | 5,00,000   |
|    56 |         | Ms. Abantika Deka, Badminton             | Bangalore      | 10,00,000  |

|   57. |         | Family of Late Laishram Manitombi, Football   | Manipur        | 5,00,000   |
|-------|---------|-----------------------------------------------|----------------|------------|
|    58 |         | Shri Sucha Singh, Athletics                   | Jalandhar      | 6,00,000   |
|    59 |         | Shri Devank Sharma, Pencaksilat               | Jammu          | 80,000     |
|    60 |         | Shri Amit Kumar, Wrestling                    | Delhi          | 2,10,000   |
|    61 |         | Shri Vivek Kumar Mishra, Netball              | Uttar Pradesh  | 2,50,000   |
|    62 |         | Shri Sunny Jadhav, Wrestling                  | Madhya Pradesh | 2,50,000   |
|    63 |         | Ms. Shivani Soni, Mini Golf                   | Chattisgarh    | 45,000     |
|    64 |         | Ms Vikas Rana, Skiing                         | Haryana        | 2,50,000   |
|    65 |         | Shri Anshuman Pathak, Shooting                | Uttar Pradesh  | 2,50,000   |
|    66 |         | Ms Shaik Jafreen, Deaf Tennis                 | Andhra Pradesh | 2,50,000   |
|    67 | 2021-22 | Shri Harsheel Dani                            | Maharashtra    | 5,13,000   |
|    68 | 2021-22 | Shri Praveen Ravan Shinde                     | Maharashtra    | 5,00,000   |
|    69 | 2021-22 | Shri Sumit Kumar                              | Delhi          | 2,50,000   |
|    70 | 2021-22 | Shri Rakshith Shetty                          | Karnataka      | 2,50,000   |
|    71 | 2021-22 | Shri Aamit Kumar                              | Punjab         | 2,50,000   |
|    72 | 2021-22 | Ms Ganga Bai                                  | Jharkhand      | 5,00,000   |
|    73 | 2021-22 | Shri Tanay Harsh                              | Bihar          | 2,50,000   |
|    74 | 2021-22 | Shri Maharaj Krishon Kaushik                  | Delhi          | 5,00,000   |
|    75 | 2021-22 | Shri Ravinder Pal Singh                       | Uttar Pradesh  | 5,00,000   |
|    76 | 2021-22 | Shri Joseph James                             | Karnataka      | 2,50,000   |
|    77 | 2021-22 | Ms. Tejaswini Bai                             |                | 2,00,000   |
|    78 | 2021-22 | Shri Akash                                    | Uttar Pradesh  | 5,00,000   |
|    79 | 2021-22 | Ms. Sangeeta Kumari                           | Jharkhand      | 2,50,000   |
|    80 | 2021-22 | Shri Najeeb Aga                               | Karnataka      | 97,910     |

|   81. | Shri. Anay Bai       | Haryana   | 2,50,000   |
|-------|----------------------|-----------|------------|
|    82 | Shri Harshit Agarwal | Karnataka | 2,42,000   |
|    83 | Ms. Sunita Devi      | Haryana   | 5,00,000   |
|    84 | Ms. Mona             | Haryana   | 5,00,000   |

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