moodbidri state government has embarked on an ambitious plan to provide synthetic tracks in all district headquarters in a phased manner work on 13 such tracks in karnataka is complete and department of youth empowerment and sports will take up projects in the remaining 17 districts based on proposals received from the respective districts noted g parameshwara deputy chief minister who also holds the youth empowerment and sports portfolioinaugurating the 79th all india interuniversity athletics meet hosted by mangalore university under the aegis of alvas education foundation here parameshwara said the present government is committed to developing sports infrastructure in the state hopefully we should get there in next five years he said a sports university is in the offing in hura hobli in tumakuru district along nh 4 process to acquire 100 acres for the university is underway he saidlikewise a sports hub is being developed in 65acres of land close to bengaluru international airport he said it has fullfledged synthetic track and swimming pool he said the government is also committed to providing cash and other material incentives to sportspersons for the state we are actively considering providing bda sites for the achiever athletes said parameshwara who incidentally is also heading the bengaluru development authorityinternational athletes supriya high jumper jyothi chouhan steeplechase prajwal mandanna and elakya dasan sprinters and praveen chitravel triple jumper of the host university handed over the sports torch to nalin kumar kateel dk mp high jumper abhinaya shetty took the sports pledge on behalf of the participating athletes the organizers honoured p t usha eminent athlete in recognition of her contribution to the field of athletics on this occasionk vaidyanathan and rina poonia aiu observers lauded dr m mohan alva chairman aef for rolling out the red carpet for athletes and officials it is the host university that bears the expenses vaidyanathan presently director sports srm university said aiu has not received any funds from the union government for the last 4years towards these meets rina director sports manipal university jaipur said the arrangements are the best she has seen