new delhi sep 10 all india council of sports aics today urged the government to enhance the sports budget to ensure that the countrys athletes are wellprepared for international competitions in view of the prime ministers ambitious programme to prepare the sportspersons for the next 12 years which will cover three olympic games 2020 to 2028 there is a urgent need to recognise sports as a priority sector and for that a big annual financial allocation is required aics president vijay kumar malhotra said presiding over the third meeting of the aics which was attended among others by sachin tendulkar bhaichung bhutia kunjarani devi limba ram and ioa president nramachandran he said prime ministers decision to set up a task force to oversee the preparations of the indian sportspersons for the future olympic and asian games is very reassuring malhotra said he will take an aics delegation to meet the prime minister to seek hike in the allocation for sports tendulkar made and impassioned appeal to the government and other agencies to create a new competitive sports culture in the country we have talent we just need to spot them and polish them look at deepa sakshi or sindhu they all proved that can shine at the world stage provided they get the right support he said tendulkar was of the view that athletes need a very committed support staff behind every successful sportsperson in the worldthere is a core of committed support staff he said we should get a large pool of qualified foreign coaches and their staff in our country they should be entrusted to coach our coaches and train the support staff they should be hired on long term basis so that by the time they go back we should have a very strong bench strength of the coaches support staff and of course athletes he added bhutia said that there was a need to develop support at the district level we need decent playgrounds at village level a good infrastructure at the district level he said pm pm