Chief minister Harish Rawat promised on Friday the “highest increase” in the sport budget and announced a slew of steps for sports promotion in an attempt to reach out to the youth ahead of the assembly election. Students from more than a dozen private and state-run girls’ and boys’ schools from Dehradun participated in the Chhatra Sansad. Rawat confessed to being stumped when a student asked him why government circulars issued to state-run schools were not sent to private ones. To another query, he said steps for sports promotion in state-run schools would be applicable to privately run schools. The direction came after a student asked why girls were not encouraged to participate in martial arts.

Source: Hindustan Times December 02, 2016 16:09 UTC