mumbai asserting that it was olympic success which gave the country sporting recognition former world and national billiards champion geet sethi on thursday said the country should be grateful to shooter abhinav bindra for breaking indias gold medal drought in the quadrennial eventsporting identity of the country does not reflect from the media hype or the hype that an event generates but from the way its top athletes perform in the olympics sethi said addressing a gathering at the india international sports summitthe sporting fraternity owes a huge gratitude to abhinav bindra he has subconsciously instilled the belief in us that yes we can do itwhatever the country achieves in the oympics later on it was bindra who started it all he saidbindra became the first indian to win an individual gold medal in the olympics during the beijing olympics in 2008sethi said there has been a positive change in how the government perceived sports as was evident with the increase in sports budget from rs 150 crore in 1998 to over rs 2500 crore nowhowever sethi said that government help was not alone for the development of sports in the country and the need of the hour was a publicprivate partnershipwe need to come up with constructive publicprivate partnerships which can be useful to create stadia train players etcwe need to have more publicprivate partnerships so that the country can win not one but at least 20 gold medals by 2020 he said