new delhi the all india football federation aiff on tuesday passed a budget of rs 134 crore an increase of nearly 50 crore from last year for 202324 during its annual general meeting agm in bengaluruthe aiff budget for 202223 was rs 87 crore which its general secretary shaji prabhakaran had termed meagre for a big country like indiayes we passed a budget of rs 134 crore a raise of exactly 54 percent for 202324 financial year last years budget was rs 87 crore aiffs finance committee chairman menla ethenpa told ptiethenpa who is also the sikkim football association president attended the agm the first under the new dispensation led by president kalyan chaubey he took charge in september last yearthe agm also approved the appointment of a statutory auditor to audit the accounts of the federation and the financial statements and audit reports of 202223representatives from 34 member state associations and two affiliate members railways sports promotion board and services sports control board attended the agm observers from fifa afc and ioa as well as a representative of aiff marketing partners fsdl were also presentprabhakaran had earlier complained that the aiff budget was too low and it should be increased manifoldprabhakaran also said that the upcoming ileague season 202324 will most likely see a conference style competition like the one in the usawe will discuss with the ileague teams very soon and then take a final decision but i feel it conference style ileague should start from the upcoming season he said on tuesdaywe have decided to induct five new teams to the ileague but there are formalities to be completed they have to fulfill certain criteria club licensing criteria he addedunder the conference system the teams could be divided into two conferences each conference will be made up of teams which are in geographical proximity the teams in each conference will play home and away and the top four from both groups will compete for the title the remaining teams will engage in a battle to avoid relegationthis could reduce the operational cost of the clubs as they will not need to travel too far to play away matchesprabhakaran had last month said that the ileague needs restructuring so that smaller clubs can survive by cutting down their players travel and accommodation costhe had said if the money spent on logistics is reduced clubs with less budget will survive and that will also help in the ileague having more teams across the countrythe clubs should not put 80 per cent of their money on logistics currently its only 20 per cent which is going to football the remaining is going to logistics it cant be like this prabhakaran had told ptiwe have to see how we can reduce the cost of operation of clubs the idea is not to reduce the budget but that budget should not be used as a cost for flying and for hotel it could be used for the ground