At a time when the girl child is looked down upon and subject to many atrocities in our country, it's ironic that women have salvaged India's pride at Rio Olympics. Sakshi, Sindhu, Aditi and Deepa Karmakar are pride of thus nation every Indian ought to be grateful to these women. They have all proved that with hard work nothing is impossible.
 No doubt India's poor performance at Rio must serve as an eye opener to officials and the Ministry of sports must take the responsibility .The kind of zeal shown by various state governments towards Olympic medal winners is welcome but these States should show the same enthusiasm and invest in sports, to produce more medal winners.
I'm happy our PM Modi constituted a Task Force for the coming Olympics and the Sports Authority of India seems to realise now that there is immense talent now available in India. In fact  we made things worse by sending huge contingent thinking it would translate into a bigger medal haul, but unfortunately these were Athletes who lacked the fire to win. They have hurt the nation's pride and been in the news for all the wrong reasons. We now have two young heroines and are deeply indebted to them for salvaging the nation's pride.
 Even tiny countries like Singapore have won gold medals. Where did we fail? Infact first the Cricket crazy nation must learn to look beyond Cricket and promote other sports activities in the same level. Here I remember one old saying by George Bernard Shaw who said" Cricket is a game played by 11 fools and watched by 11000 fools" . This is true in India especially where we see a craze for the T20 and IPL matches etc. I would extend this to argue that it is true of all sports where every one loves to comment but few want to encourage their children to play.
   Both AP and TS competed to shower awards on Sindhu. Awards from other States, organisations, indivisuals,and others continue to pour with the tally of unending monetary awards for Sindhu crossing around 15 crores, I feel overdose of every thing is not good. There should be some upper limit for awards , compensations etc in large national good because public exchequers are funded by tax payer's hard earned money. Since India has a federal structure some system should formulated whereby in case consolidated monetary awards cross a stipulated limit of say a five or ten crores, balance may be taxed at hundred percent. However there should be total ban on gifting of immovable property . We have seen some Cricketers having become ultra super rich because of too many awards.
   Despite bold pronouncements by the Govts at the end of Olympics to encourage all sports, the fact remains that the sports gets the least priority in allocations of budget every year. Shaming the sports is the sports bodies headed by politicians who know nothing about the game except enrich themselves while the fact of the matter is that 30 percent of schools in the six southern states don't have playgrounds and almost all parents want their wards to become Engineers and doctors only, therefore it is natural that the sports take the back seat. Every school in our country should make sport compulsory from class 5th, and to implement this, every school should have sufficient infrastructure. 
 In this connection , I want to remind one costly mistake done by our Sports Ministry in the recent Olympics and the Indian contingent 's indiscretions at Rio further lowered its image in the eyes of International Fora, .The Sports Minister and his staff were warned of even expulsion for their " aggressive and rude behaviour. The contingent packed with self designated celebrities like sons of former CMs ,and a not a doctor but a radiologist etc, The Union Minister of State for Sports was found in the beaches cheering locals at Rio. No nation could beat India in the game apathy, and irresponsibility towards its own Atheletes. For instance all the so called privileged travelled in business class while Atheletes went in economy. 
Now it is time we have to hunt for hidden jewels, and nurture them from young age and the Govts both State and central should take concrete steps to develop our sports. It should call players like PT Usha, Malleswari, Milkha Singh and many more distinguished players to establish academies, as it is already proved that Gopichand has succeeded through his academy, while keeping politicians and bureaucrats out of its arena so that we may achieve medals in the next Olympics at Tokyo.