India’s largest
international convention on business of sports.
Turf 2013, 23-24th
Oct, 2013.
The 5th Global Sorts Summit also dubbed as the
largest international convention on business of sports was inaugurated in the
esteemed presence of Her Excellency Jan Henderson (High commissioner of New Zealand to
India), Dr. Arbind Prasad (DG, FICCI), Mr. GSG Ayyangar (Joint Secretary with the
Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs), eminent FICCI dignitaries, sports
research delegates from the UK and New Zealand, sportsperson from the yesteryears as well as the present, media and media partners.
Understanding sports as an emerging industry and the
plethora of opportunities available, FICCI came up with the idea of TURF, a
joint initiative aimed at improving the available sporting infrastructure to
develop and place India as one amongst the greatest sporting nations. TURF aims
at gathering and providing sports development strategies, investments etc to
nurture a country with almost unlimited sporting talents.
TURF 2013 was all about focusing on challenges and
opportunities for entrepreneurs, raising the standards of sports and physical
education and improving the employability of human resources, all of which are
key points for the growth of the sports sector in India.
The summit was inaugurated with key note addresses by the
key panelists emphasizing on the instrumental role played by FICCI in
stimulating sports development in India. GSG Ayyangar, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Youth Affairs, stressed on the ‘dream’
of enabling India to be amongst the top 10 sporting nations with respect to the
greatest sporting events of all time, the Olympics.
The house was shown a video presentation, highlighting the
amazing talents available at hand and the various development and
investment opportunities available in Sports.
The
summit will continue for the next two days with a number of sessions scheduled involving a panel of speakers
discussing the development and investment opportunities available, working
towards a sports enabled India and a range of themes.
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