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Sports Policy To Be Tabled By Year End Says Ismail Sabri


KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 18 (Bernama) -- The amended version of the National Sports Policy (NSP) would be submitted to the Cabinet Committee for Sports Development (CabComm) by year end, says Minister of Youth and Sports Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

He said proposals and resolutions put forward and accepted during the National Sports Convention last week would also be drafted into the NSP for consideration.

"We are now in the last phase of the draft. We had waited for new input from the National Sports Convention to be added and now we have finalised the draft copy and expect to submit it by year end," he told reporters after chairing a committee meeting comprising the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Education Ministry and Higher Education Ministry with regard to sports development, at the Parliament, Tuesday.

In March, Ismail Sabri had given a committee headed by Youth and Sports Ministry secretary-general Datuk Mohd Yassin Mohd Salleh, six months, to review and update the NSP.

If the NSP, aimed at mapping the direction of sports development in the country, was received by the CabComm, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, it would be presented to the cabinet for approval, he said.

The NSP, introduced in 1988 had to be reviewed as a number of sports that were not popular during that time, had not been included although they have become relevant now.

He added that during the meeting, the proposal by the Ministry to set up Sports Science and physiology centres throughout the country, was discussed.

The proposal would be submitted to the CabComm on Dec 1 and the National Sports Institute (ISN) has been asked to prepare a detailed blueprint since there are only four sports science satellite centres in Johor, Sarawak, Kuala Lumpur and Penang, he said.

Ismail Sabri said the setting up of such facilities would not involve a large allocation as existing structures would be used or upgraded.

He added that during the discussion, all three ministries agreed to focus on seven main sports, deemed potential to win medals at the Olympics or other championships, namely badminton, football, hockey, archery, sepak takraw, athletics and gymnastics.

-- BERNAMA

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