The Chancellor of VIT University, G. Viswanathan, was attending a programme organised to felicitate Commonwealth Games gold medalist in weightlifting S. Sathish Kumar on Wednesday.
He urged the Central and State governments to take measures to encourage people to take up sports as a career.
He observed that people give a lot of importance to cricket in India. Many do not think about taking up sports as a career..
He expressed that the government and the private sector sponsor cricket and neglect other sports and games.
He recommended pensions schemes for sports-persons for their post-retirement.
He said that VIT University would start giving priority to students excelling in sports in admissions from this year.
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