new delhi the sports ministry has set a target of 10plus medals at the forthcoming rio olympics that will see the largestever indian contingent of athletes participating in ita committee set up by the ministry last year to identify medal prospects had selected 110 sportspersons of whom 76 have already qualified sports minister sarbananda sonowal told the rajya sabhafor the forthcoming rio olympics the sports ministry has set a target the target is set at 10plus medals he said in reply to supplementaries on the ministrys goals for rio olympicssonowal said the ministry had constituted a committee headed by anurag thakur with sportspersons in it to select sportspersons as medal prospects for the olympics in consultation with veteran athletesthe committee had selected 110 medal prospect athletes so far out of them 76 athletes have qualified for the rio olympics and we are expecting more to qualify he saidi believe this will be the largest contingent at an olympics earlier during the london olympics the indian contingent had 60 participants due to the steps taken by us it has encouraged the sportspersons and we are expecting that rio will add to our joy happiness and success he saidin reply to another question the minister said the government has relaxed the age of sportspersons from 18 years earlier to 25 years under a scheme for trainee sportspersons at sports authority of india sai centresin his written reply to a question on the suicide by sportspersons he said though the incident was tragic the ministry has passed instructions to all sai offices so that such incidents do not recursonowal said many agencies had investigated the incident of suicide by a girl trainee of sais special area games centre at alleppey in kerala in may 2015 including a magisterial inquiry as well as those by human rights bodies at the national and state levelsno inquiry report has found sai officials guilty anywhere on acts of omissions and commissions he said