Its time for each and every individual of our country to rethink about importance of sports:

Its time for each and every individual of our country to rethink about importance of sports:
U.S.A, a nation with a population of 36crores, sent 594 players to olympics, and in each and every olympics they will stand in top 2 positions in highest number of medals to a country. On the other hand, our neighbouring country, our counterpart, China with a sent 414 players, and always competes with U.S for the first place.
 India Is a country with a population of 131  crore, but only 120+ players were sent out of them,i.e., not even a single person for one crore of population. Out of those 120+ players, only 2 players won the medals.
Where is the wrong, with the Indians?? Either it is in the individuals/ families or the government????
The wrong with us,starts from the family and the society, the moment we say, 'I want to play so and so game', the reaction comes In the way 'by playing that game, u r not going to become great as so and so player,who is excellent in that game'. In addition to that almost every indian parent say, first concentrate on your studies, later you can go for the sports if u show excellence in studies . 99.9% give up here itself. Such people play, only for fun, and spend some time happily with friends. Remaining 0.1% people they don't give up. They fight with each and every obstacle, be it game they play, criticism from the society,  poverty, e.t.c., ultimately these are the people who shine as best players for India and represent India at worldwide competitions.
Next coming to the wrong with government, Our government never encourages sports/ games. The allocations for the sports/games in our annual budget is very less.  Rs. 1592 crores were allocated for sports ministry for the fiscal year 2016-17. It is not even 0.1% of the total indian budget. Indian government is spending 12.15₹ on every indian for the sports. This is how our government shows interests on sports.
When a player wins a medal or championship at competitions across the world be it world championship or in Olympics , our governments simply, offers 1crore to 10crore as a reward on the behalf of the government and feels as their duty is over. Is rewarding a sports person is important? Yes, it is. But not giving them reward from the public money. If they are such capable, they should give those money from their pocket or from their party funds, but not from the people's money. Rewarding money is not the final thing, governments responsibility to create an environment for the upcoming sports persons, who are going to represent India in near future. Government simply reward the money for the winners and forget those players who showed their excellence at the various competitions held across the world . There are many instances where past Olympic winners are selling gol gappa for their livelihood survival.
Coming to one more interesting point, In India, people are very much interested in watching than to play. That is the reason why, IPL,ISL and other leagues are running in huge profits. Though, there are many people from rural areas/low income group families, who are shining through these league's,  but the main motto is not to bring out such people. The main motto is business. Just think for a while,in an year how many leagues are being conducted in India?? Almost every month we have a league either it may be IPL, ISL, hockey league,  kabaddi league e.t.c.. So we Indians are making the billionaires more richer, by watching these leagues, though they pay taxes to the government for conducting these leagues, governments are not interested in improving facilities for those people who are excelling in various leagues  who are basically from remote areas and from below poverty line families.
Its time to open our eyes, and start encouraging our next generation towards sports, we can beat world champions in each and every game. We can break every record, if we start encouraging our next generation's and facilitating them with best equipments and environment. As government has initiated "Make in India", "Stand up India", they should also take an initiatives in the field of sports,"Play  for India".