July 2025
July 2025
Monsoon session
- Introduced in the Lok Sabha monsoon session
- passed on August 11, 2025
National Sports Board
- Proposes to institute a board with sweeping powers to lay down rules and oversee functioning of federations, including BCCI (Board of Control of Cricket in India).
- The board will also consist of women and celebrated sportsperson, ensuring that decision makin reflects both diversity and lived sporting experience.
- This, National Sports Board, will create a stringent system for accountability.
- All National Sports Federation will have to attain its recognition for access to union government funds.
National Sports Tribunal
- Proposes for a National Sports Tribunal, with powers of civil court, and decide disputes ranging from selection to election, involving federations and athletes.
- Tribunal's decision can only be challenged in the Supreme Court.
Concessions on age cap
- Some concessions on the issue of age cap for administrators by allowing those in the age bracket of 70 to contest elections if the international bodies statutes and by laws allow for it.
- The maximum age limit can be expanded to 75, under special cases to align with global norms
- The tenure has been fixed at 12 years for top office bearers.
Under the ambit of RTI
All recognised national sports bodies would also come within the ambit of Right to Information act, something the BCCI vehemently opposed.