bengaluru infosys foundation and gosports foundation on tuesday launched girls for gold program a highperformance excellence program for junior and emerging women athletes the program spanning an initial term of four years will identify and support progression of talented indian women athletes between 1319 years through collaborations with high potential academies and coaches in india the program will include scholarships coaching access to academies and performance recognitionthe program will follow a threepronged approach first it will establish a strong cohort of women athletes who will be equipped to compete at the international level help them build sustainable careers and nurture them to become role models for the next generation secondly it will build a pipeline of qualified and capable coaches who will help realize the aspirations of athletes and create an atmosphere of sustained sporting excellence third it will help techenable the identified academies to make them world class training centers to begin with five academies across five sports lakshya shooting club mary kom regional boxing foundation sathish sivalingam weightlifting foundation raman tt high performance centre and yadav pro badminton academy have been identified as the inaugural beneficiariesthe beneficiaries have been identified by an advisory board comprising suma shirur b bhuvaneswari and mc mary kom