The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs and Sports Shri Sarbananda Sonowal has said that there is no proposal to introduce schemes exclusively for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Below Poverty Line sportspersons as all Schemes of the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports and autonomous organizations under its control viz., Sports Authority of India (SAI), Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education (LNIPE), are inclusive schemes and are equally applicable to sportspersons belonging to marginalized and weaker sections of society such as scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, economically backward classes, etc.
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