Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur inaugurates Sports Science Center in Udupi, Karnataka

Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur inaugurates Sports Science Center in Udupi, Karnataka: On December 24, 2022, Anurag Thakur, Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, Information, and Broadcasting, officially opened the Sports Science Center in Udupi. The sports science center has been set up by the government of Karnataka.

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Two sports science centres have been established by the state government in Udupi and Bengaluru. These centers will conduct research on medicines, nutritious food, treatment and rehabilitation measures for sportspersons, which would help them to boost their abilities. The Minister predicted that there will be numerous such sports science centres. A future date.

National Center of Excellence 

The Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports’ Sports Authority of India (SAI) has also established a sports science centre on its premises. 21 National Centres of Excellence (NCOE) and two high performance centers (Bengaluru and Patiala). It has also set up a National Centre for Sports Sciences and Research (NCSSR) in New Delhi which is the hub of SAI Sports Science Center. 

The National Centers of excellence provides specialized training in selected sports disciplines and also has a well-functioning Sports Science Center.  The National centers of Excellence are at Alleppey and Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, Aurangabad and Mumbai in Maharashtra, Bengaluru in Karnataka, Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, Chandigarh, Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh, Guwahati in Assam, Gandhinagar in Gujarat, Imphal in Manipur, Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh, Jagatpur in Odisha, Kolkata in West Bengal, Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, Patiala in Punjab, Rohtak, Sonepat in Haryana and 5 centers in New Delhi.