2 min learnJun 20, 2026 03:51 PM IST
The sports activities ministry is constituting a activity power to fast-track the internet hosting of main motorsport occasions in India, with a watch on bringing Components One again to the nation by 2028.
Sports activities Minister Mansukh Mandaviya mentioned on Saturday that the choice was taken at a latest assembly with stakeholders, together with officers from Components One, Buddh Worldwide Circuit homeowners the Adani Group, representatives of the Federation of Motor Sports activities Golf equipment of India (FMSCI), and younger racers and lovers.
“We’ll represent a activity power to undertake an in depth evaluation of the motorsports ecosystem within the nation and look at the challenges related to its progress,” Mandaviya mentioned.
The duty power will consider the financial, tourism and funding advantages of internet hosting main motorsport occasions in India, determine infrastructure necessities and submit suggestions to the ministry. It’ll have illustration from FMSCI, the Sports activities Ministry and the related state authorities.
India hosted Components One from 2011 to 2013 earlier than it was dropped from the calendar over taxation and monetary disputes. F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali just lately signalled curiosity in a return however stopped wanting committing to a timeline.
“There’s a large curiosity from us to return to your nation,” Domenicali advised FanCode. “There are the precise issues that we have to do: discover the precise promoters, the precise collaboration and the precise timing, which is not going to be within the very brief time period. However after we speak about 5 years in Components 1, it appears very distant, however it’s not.”
Sports activities added to CSR precedence checklist
Sports activities has additionally been added to the precedence checklist of Company Social Accountability actions underneath the Division of Public Enterprises (DPE) framework.
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Whereas promotion of sports activities has at all times been an eligible CSR exercise underneath Schedule VII of the Firms Act 2013, it had not been accorded devoted standing underneath the DPE framework, leaving CSR funding in sports activities restricted and depending on particular person priorities of Central Public Sector Enterprises.
With sports activities now on the precedence checklist, CPSEs should allocate 60 per cent of their CSR funds to sports activities. The scope has additionally been widened past infrastructure to incorporate teaching, coaching and different growth actions.