Modi Govt’s TOPS led to India’s best ever Olympics tally: Sarbananda Sonowal

Guwahati, August 08 (NKTV): Union Minister and former Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal yesterday said that the Modi Government’s ‘TOPS’ policy helped athletes to win India’s best-ever tally in Olympics and the first ever gold in Athletics at the Olympics.

Sonowal said the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) was started in September, 2014 under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sports Minister Anurag Thakur led the selection panel comprising experts to search for potential medal winners, informed. It may be mentioned here that Sonowal was the Sports Minister till 2017 in the first dispensation of the Modi Government before becoming the Chief Minister of Assam.

He informed that under this scheme, the government provided financial assistance, training, coaching and medical help whenever required to athletes and sportspersons.

“The main target of the scheme was to win medals in 2020 Olympics” Sonowal said.

Inputs from PTI