Haryana Government introduces bill for new sports university
According to the reports, in order to remove objections raised by the central government, the fresh bill will be taken up for discussion on March 18.
The Haryana government on March 17 tabled a bill in the assembly for setting up a state-of-the-art sports university. Following "certain observations from the Centre", the Sports University of Haryana Bill, 2021 was tabled in the assembly after the government withdrew the previous Sports University Bill of Haryana, 2019. According to the reports, in order to remove objections raised by the central government, the fresh bill will be taken up for discussion on March 18. On March 8, the Haryana Assembly withdrew the Sports University Bill of Haryana, 2019, under which it had earlier announced to appoint cricket legend Kapil Dev as the chancellor.
In September 2019, then Haryana Sports Minister Anil Vij announced that Kapil Dev would be the first chancellor of the Haryana Sports University at Rai in the Sonipat district. However, Sports Minister Sandeep Singh withdrew the bill stating that the state government has decided to take a "relook" at it on the Centre's advice. As there was no provision of the nomination of the member by the UGC for the appointment of vice-chancellor in the previous bill, the Centre had asked the state government to “re-visit” the bill.
The fresh bill introduced in the house states, "The Search Committee shall consist of five persons, out of whom two shall be nominated by the Executive Council and two by the state government, one by the UGC." Regarding the appointment of eminent sports personalities for posts of Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor, the bill added, "They will be eminent persons in the field of sports who shall either be sportspersons of international repute or renowned sports administrators or sports academicians."
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