bangalore the karnataka government intends to establish a sports academy for excellence with an aim to nurture athletes who can win medals at international level including the 2016 olympics chief minister d v sadananda gowda said on mondaygowda said a committee has been constituted to chalk out a sports policy for the first timethe chief minister was speaking after distributing ekalavya awards to 12 sportspersons of the state who had excelled in different disciplines in national and international eventsgowda also presented lifetime awards to p s vishwanath and m s made gowda for their achievements and promotion of sports in the statethe ekalavya awardees were h m jyothi amoolya kamal robin uthappa viani antonio dcunha chess s jeeva kumar c r santhosh pooja shree venkatesh v nethravathi sharanya mahesh shubha chittaranjan t d ravikumar and c p r sudhir kumarthe award carried rs one lakh cash prize and citation