High-level committee formed to strategise preparations for 2020, 2024 Olympics

  1. Government has constituted a high-level 10-member Committee under the Chairmanship of Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju to coordinate and strategise the preparation for the 2020 and 2024 Olympics.
  2. The objective of the committee is to ensure that the performance of the Indian athletes is optimised in the Olympics and other multidisciplinary events.
  3. The aim of the committee for the Tokyo Games would be to provide all possible support to potential and qualified athletes.
  4. For the 2024 Paris Games,the committee would chart out a road-map for the preparation and then will continuously review and suggest course corrections whenever required.It will also prepare a strategy for bidding of multidisciplinary sporting events in future.