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Why has the Army scrapped its pre-Olympics training scheme for soldiers’ children? The top brass say it has not been yielding results. But the facts speak otherwise, reports Mayank Singh
The Indian Army’s ambitious ‘Mission Olympics – Catch Them Young’ scheme has been scrapped, and quite suddenly morphed into ‘Mission Suppress’. TSI did not even get a chance to confront the officers with the exhaustive research that this magazine has conducted – all of which completely contradicts their dire claims that the scheme did not yield any results. All in all, the impression was inescapable that the Army had something major to hide.
For, everywhere this correspondent went, he was stonewalled, most of the officers clamming up at the very mention of the scrapped mission. And the few who could be persuaded to speak their minds did so strictly on condition of anonymity – some of them alleging that nepotism and financial mismanagement were the factors behind this decision.
Mission Olympics was launched in 2005 after Lt Col Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won an Olympic silver medal. The idea was to conduct a talent hunt among the children of Army personnel – especially those of jawans – and get the shortlisted candidates to face an expert jury. Shooting, archery and lawn tennis were the three categories in which the children would be trained. Under the scheme the expenses incurred on the selected children’s education, food, lodging, coaching, travel et al would have been borne by the Army.
After the culling of the children – both boys and girls – the jury panel, headed by a brigadier and comprising sports coaches and sports medicine doctors, selected 23 of them. The selection process was extremely tough. In the first stage itself the children were tested in all seven commands, and only those who cleared these were interviewed by the jury in New Delhi.
The programme won wide popularity – especially among the jawans – because it provided their children with an out-of-the-world opportunity to rise in life. For shooting and archery are highly expensive sports. It would never have been possible for any one of them to buy a gun (which costs Rs 1 lakh in the open market) and then pay for the training expenses. In the 12-member shooting team nine were children of soldiers and junior commissioned officers, and it had cost Rs 20 lakh to build the shooting and archery ranges. One coach said the market price of practice sessions is around Rs 10,000 a month.
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Why has the Army scrapped its pre-Olympics training scheme for soldiers’ children? The top brass say it has not been yielding results. But the facts speak otherwise, reports Mayank Singh
The Indian Army’s ambitious ‘Mission Olympics – Catch Them Young’ scheme has been scrapped, and quite suddenly morphed into ‘Mission Suppress’. TSI did not even get a chance to confront the officers with the exhaustive research that this magazine has conducted – all of which completely contradicts their dire claims that the scheme did not yield any results. All in all, the impression was inescapable that the Army had something major to hide.For, everywhere this correspondent went, he was stonewalled, most of the officers clamming up at the very mention of the scrapped mission. And the few who could be persuaded to speak their minds did so strictly on condition of anonymity – some of them alleging that nepotism and financial mismanagement were the factors behind this decision.
Mission Olympics was launched in 2005 after Lt Col Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won an Olympic silver medal. The idea was to conduct a talent hunt among the children of Army personnel – especially those of jawans – and get the shortlisted candidates to face an expert jury. Shooting, archery and lawn tennis were the three categories in which the children would be trained. Under the scheme the expenses incurred on the selected children’s education, food, lodging, coaching, travel et al would have been borne by the Army.
After the culling of the children – both boys and girls – the jury panel, headed by a brigadier and comprising sports coaches and sports medicine doctors, selected 23 of them. The selection process was extremely tough. In the first stage itself the children were tested in all seven commands, and only those who cleared these were interviewed by the jury in New Delhi.
The programme won wide popularity – especially among the jawans – because it provided their children with an out-of-the-world opportunity to rise in life. For shooting and archery are highly expensive sports. It would never have been possible for any one of them to buy a gun (which costs Rs 1 lakh in the open market) and then pay for the training expenses. In the 12-member shooting team nine were children of soldiers and junior commissioned officers, and it had cost Rs 20 lakh to build the shooting and archery ranges. One coach said the market price of practice sessions is around Rs 10,000 a month.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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