bengaluru a hike in the daily food allowance of athletes at state sports hostels making it on a par with that of sports authority of india sai and a revamp of the hockey stadium in kodagu were among the highlights of the budgetary provisions for sports announced in the state assembly on fridaywith a view to providing nutritious balanced food to sportspersons at sports hostels the daily food allowance will be enhanced to the level of what is in practice at sai hostels for this a grant of rs 6 crore is provided during 201920 cm hd kumaraswamy said in his budget speechat present the junior trainees class v to vii get an allowance of rs 175 per head per day while the seniors are paid rs 200 class viii to degree sai provides an allowance of rs 225 per head for seniors but that is only for the purchase of grocery separate funds are allotted for cooking the sports hostel allowance includes everything from purchase to cooking the plan is to hike the allowance in the region of rs 275 for seniors sources told toifunds have been allocated to set up new hostel buildings for girls so far dyes was forced to accommodate girls in different floors of the same building in all its 22 hostels but now provision has been made for separate buildings for girls in 10 hostels with an allocation of rs 15 crore each the sources addedthese hostels will come up in raichur haveri mangaluru chikkamagaluru mandya chamarajnagar kalaburgi kolar hassan and dharwad at a total cost of rs 15 crore besides rs 125 crore has been earmarked for new sports hostels at yadagiri ballari chikkaballapura bidar and madikeri during the current yearboost for hockeythe cm also announced that a hockey stadium would be developed in kodagu a majority of the sportspersons selected from karnataka to the national teams in hockey are from the kodava community in recognition of this contribution the kodava community hockey stadium at balugoda in virajpet will be developed at a cost of rs 5 crore he saidthe facilities at the district stadia in mandya bidar tumakuru and hassan too will be upgraded at a cost of rs four crore kumaraswamy addedthe cm further allocated funds for mini olympic games and rs 2 crore for adventure sports festivalsthere is no mention of the total outlay for the department of youth empowerment and sports dyes this year the department had received rs 224 crore in the last fiscal there was also a demand for the development of all taluklevel stadiums but there is no provision for that the sources said