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Corruption is no stranger to India and its culmination in scale and magnitude
subjected the government and ministry of sport to global shame, The budget of
commonwealth was allocated to $400m in 2003 and in the reports the government end up
spending 18 times more which could have easily fostered 3 Olympic games. Sometimes it's
very disturbing to find the level of corruption at such magnitude in country whose 80%
population according world bank report (2005) lives under $2 meal a day. Several trillion
dollars of unaccounted for money remains locked in Swiss banks which the Indian
government is finding hard to retrieve. Post-Games, the first major action taken by the
Government was to demand the resignation of two top officials, the Organizing Committee
Chairman, Suresh Kalmadi, and Secretary General, Lalit Bhanot. Both Kalmadi and Bhanot
have since been arrested and are being interrogated by the investigation agencies. Today
corruption has plagued almost every sport ranging from Cricket, Hockey, Athletics and
among other sports.
Link: - https://edubirdie.com/examples/corruption-in-indian-sports-
system/
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Sports is big time politics in India. Jay Shah, son of home
minister Amit Shah, is Honorary Secretary, BCCI and was elected as the
President of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) following its AGM held virtually.
Ten years president of the Wrestling Federation of India (against whom
recent complaints have been lodged) is the powerful six-term MP from UP,
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh (BBSS) (Kaiser Ganj), whose money and muscle
power is said to influence over ten other Lok Sabha seats in UP. His son is an
MLA. In Sept 2020 the All-India Tennis Association elected Anil Kumar Jain
as president. He is a BJP Rajya Sabha member. Ajay Singh, also the chairman
of SpiceJet airlines, was elected chairman of the Boxing Association of India
in Feb 2021. The list could go on and on. Why cannot sportspersons head
sports bodies and why do we need politicians, businessmen at the top. The
Indian government spends one of the least on sports development and
facilities. The previous Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore stated in
Parliament that the central government spends a total of 3 paise (Rs 0.03)
per day per capita on sports. During a discussion on sports as a career in the
Lok Sabha, Rathore said that the total amount spent in 2017-18 by the
Department of Sports was a pitiable Rs 1393.21 crore. Compare this to
China wherein the Chinese government spends 316.5 billion yuan annually
on sports, which translates to roughly Rs 3 lakh crore and Rs 6.1 per capita
per day, almost 200 times more than its Indian counterpart. And the two
countries have roughly the same population. In developed countries per
capita expenditure is even higher. And, in India, a large part of this
expenditure goes in corruption, providing sub-standard amenities at
training centres, thereby restricting an already low sports budget.
Link: - https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article13065.html
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Corruption in India is an issue which affects economy of central, state, and
local government agencies. Corruption is blamed for stunting the economy of India.[1] A
study conducted by Transparency International in 2005 recorded that more than 62% of
Indians had at some point or another paid a bribe to a public official to get a job done. [2][3] In
2008, another report showed that about 50% of Indians had first-hand experience of paying
bribes or using contacts to get services performed by public offices. [4] In Transparency
International's 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index, which scored 180 countries on a scale
from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"), India scored 40. When ranked by score, India
ranked 85th among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is
perceived to have the most honest public sector.[5] For comparison, the best score was 90
(ranked 1), the worst score was 12 (ranked 180), and the average score was 43. [6] Various
factors contribute to corruption, including officials siphoning money from government social
welfare schemes.
Link: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_India
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India has captured the world’s imagination with its dazzling economic growth
and rise in international affairs. Its global ascent is underpinned by a robust economy,
growing at the rate of 9 percent and estimated to reach 10 percent during the next two
years. However, this newfound affluence has its flip side too, in the form of horizontal and
vertical corruption that has besieged the country. According to Transparency International’s
Corruption Perceptions Index 2010, India ranks a dismal 87 out of 188 countries, falling
three notches since 2009. During the 1970s, a prominent social activist and crusader of
democratic freedom, Jai Prakash Narain, had said that India’s poor state of health was a
consequence of corruption and a precipitous fall of moral standards in both politics and
public life. Ever since, it has plummeted further, affecting all aspects of government
functioning and public life, and sport is no exception.
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In June 2010, appalled by the Commonwealth Games corruption scandal,
former Indian Olympians launched the Group of Clean Sports India to raise public awareness
and fight corruption in sports. In a short time, span, the group has enlarged its support base
and campaigned hard to oppose politicians with no sports background from entering and
contesting for executive positions in sports bodies. Recently the group succeeded in
persuading Pallam Raju, Minister of State for Defence, to withdraw from the race for
President of the Equestrian Federation of India. But in a setback for the group, the President
of Clean Sports India, Pargat Singh, a former hockey skipper, lost to the 83-year-old veteran
Congress politician, Vidya Stokes, in the election for President of the Indian Hockey
Federation; this example illustrates the extent of political hold on sporting bodies in India.
However, the success of former cricketers with high credentials and reputation, Anil Kumble
and JavagalSrinath, in getting elected to the Karnataka State Cricket Association augurs well
for Indian cricket, and hopefully will lead to similar credible appointments in hockey
Link: - https://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-0117/ijsrp-p6111.pdf
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One major factor contributing to Corruption in sports is the large
amounts of money involved in many professional sporting events. Because there is
so much at stake financially, athletes and teams may feel pressured or tempted to
engage in dishonest activities like rigging game outcomes or using performance-
enhancing drugs to boost their chances of winning. Additionally, corrupt individuals
may attempt to influence the outcome of games through illegal betting, creating an
incentive for athletes and teams to engage in these activities in order to earn large
payouts.
Link: - https://interpollawfirm.com/crimes/corruption/corruption-in-
sport/
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NEW DELHI — For more than a month now, India has been hammered
with daily reports about the delays, shoddy construction, filthy conditions and other
problems plaguing the country’s preparations for the Commonwealth Games, which
start Sunday.
But those are not the only problems involving sports management in India, which
was dealing with a rash of other scandals even before construction faults and
unsanitary conditions in the Games village prompted the local news media to call the
long-delayed preparations “a national shame.” The volume and scale of these
scandals, when taken together, have many Indians shaking their heads and
demanding change.
Men’s field hockey, a favorite sport here, continues to struggle without an official
governing body two years after its existing federation was stripped of recognition by
the Indian sports ministry and Olympic association after a pay-to-play scandal.
Indian Premier League cricket — which has been around only since 2008 but which
is already beloved by hundreds of millions in this cricket-obsessed nation — was
rocked by allegations of extensive kickbacks and bid-rigging in the awarding of
franchises.
The coach of the national women’s field hockey team resigned in July after members
of the squad accused him of sexual harassment. And, just this month, a doping
scandal sidelined eight athletes, including swimmers and wrestlers from the Indian
Commonwealth Games squad.
Link: - https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/sports/30iht-
INDCORRUPT.html
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The significance of sports is much more than being a pastime and recreational
activity. They have been transformed into an organized activity coupled with enormous
professionalism and affecting almost every area of public life, may it be social, political or
economic. Although the pace of this transformation was slow during the 19th and most part
of the 20th century, it has boosted enormously in the past few decades owing to globalization
of technology and commerce and due to increased commercialization of sports, currently the
economic dimension of sports has assumed utmost significant Statistically, organized sports
are a multibillion-dollar industry with a global worth ranging between 350 billion and 450
Billi ($480-$620 billion).5 A 2006 report estimated that macron nomic impact of sports in the
European Union (EU) accounted from 3.7 percent of EU GDP, providing employment to 5.4
per cent of the entire labour force. Such all-round significance of sports in public life
necessitates law to play a major role to regulate it in a better manner.
Link: - https://www.lawyered.in/legal-disrupt/articles/sports-corruption-
india/
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Corruption has become synonymous with sports administration in India.
Whether it is the most popular cricket or hockey or weightlifting, most of the sports
authorities in India have come under attack due to corruption charges. Recently, in a series of
tweets, the Union Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore mooted an idea that seeks to
drop the word ‘Authority’ from the Sports Authority of India (SAI) as the word lost relevance
in the modern sporting scenario. Further, the minister expressed concern over the dire
situation of sporting icons who are struggling to meet basic needs. The minister’s comment
on the present situation of sports led to a debate on the ways to improve the sports ecosystem
in the country. It is against this backdrop; it is pertinent to understand the factors adversely
affecting the sports in India and the steps taken by the government to rectify the situation.
Link: - https://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/sports-in-india-
problems-and-reform-measures-1508848667-1
Article 10: -
Placing, accepting, laying or otherwise entering any Bet with any other party
(whether individual, company or otherwise) in relation to the result, progress, conduct or any
other aspect of any Match or Event. Directly or indirectly soliciting, inducing, enticing,
instructing, persuading, encouraging, facilitating or authorising any other party to enter a Bet
in relation to the result, progress, conduct or any other aspect of any Match or Event.
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https://documents.bcci.tv/bcci/documents/1646212247_1638284153_AntiCurru
ption-BCCI.pdf
