Days after Telangana Government appointed Anand Mahindra as the chairman of the Young India Skills University, Chief Minister Revanth Reddy on Saturday invited the Mahindra Group’s chairman to work for the development of sports infrastructure in the state.
Sharing Anand Mahindra’s message on X on India’s performance on the recently concluded Paris Olympics, he wrote, “I invite you to help us create an infrastructure to turn around the performance for Los Angeles 2028 Olympics. I want to ensure Telangana harnesses the potential of youth from not only our state, but also the country, to give India the gift of several medals.”
“I was waiting to share this privately but am choosing to share it here because it would be something the youth of India are keenly wanting to know. I also had this deep angst about the gap between potential and performance for a long while now. Along with the Young India Skills University (YISU), I have been working on the concept of Young India Sports University for Telangana for a while,” he added.
Sharing details of his recent visit to South Korea, the chief minister further wrote, “I met a top delegation of the KNSU (Korea National Sports University), including its president Moon Won-Jae. We had detailed discussions for a partnership between KNSU and the proposed YISU, and they have agreed in principle to partner with us in establishing it in Hyderabad.”
Anand Mahindra on India’s performance at Olympics
Earlier, Anand Mahindra shared the medal tally of the Paris Olympics, where India stood at 71st position with 1 silver and 5 bronze medals and wrote, “I’m extremely proud, of course, of our valiant medal winners of the Paris Olympics. But I have to confess a sense of distress when seeing our overall ranking plummet. Everyone usually has a great theory about what we need to do to live up to our potential & garner a respectable number of medals given our population. But I admit I’ve run out of thoughts and am confused,”
“The Government has spent a good deal of money & the incentives upon winning are plentiful—both at state & national level. The quality of sports infrastructure has dramatically improved. Both within the public & private sectors. The Private sector players have chipped in handsomely, most notably OGQ, and Jindal Sports. Schools have put more emphasis on sports. Even the national mindset has changed & there is a huge interest in our athletes & we celebrate them with fervour. So WHAT on earth is it that prevents us from finding world-beating talent in Olympic sports??,” he wrote further.
