New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) The Cabinet on Tuesday did not clear the proposed sports bill that aimed at ushering transperency and accountability in the functioning of national sports organisations and bringing them under the purview of the Right to Information Act.
The cabinet decided not to table the National Sports Development Bill in this session of parliament and asked Sports Minister Ajay Maken to rework the bill.
At the cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, five cabinet ministers were present – Sharad Pawar, Praful Patel, C.P. Joshi, Farooq Abdullah and Vilasrao Deshmukh.
Under the bill, all sport federations would have been covered by the RTI Act and all the sport federations would need to submit their audited reports to parliament.
