patna even as the state government has been laying stress on the need to promote sports and games among youths little has been done all these years to motivate students to participate in such activities at the college and university level sporting events have taken a back seat in most educational institutions nowadayseven in patna university which once used to occupy a prominent place in the field of sports and athletic activities at the national level the scenario is quite bleak the university which produced good players like c prasad captain of the indian football team gautam chatterji ias and late randhir verma ips has failed to produce even a national level player in the last one decade the university does not provide an environment conducive to the growth of sporting activitiespu teacher and bjp leader ranbir nandan said the university used to host interuniversity tournaments of various games quite regularly and even sent its teams outside to participate at the state and nationallevel events but neither any interuniversity tournament is being organized these days nor university teams are allowed to go outside hardly one or two teams from the university has participated at the nationallevel tournaments in recent yearsstressing the need to organize special coaching camps for cricket football hockey volleyball table tennis and athletics nandan urged the chief minister and the sports minister to set up a sports directorate in each university for planning and implementation of sporting activities at the college and university level short and longterm targets should be fixed for promoting athletic activities on the campus and adequate infrastructure should be developed in all the educational institutions for organizing sporting events he also pleaded for appointment of only those academics as vcs who have interest in sports and games