Anantapur Sports Village

Anantapur Sports Village is the home to Anantapur Sports Academy (ASA) which is considered to be one of the Sport for Development Programs in India, the Anantapur Sports Academy is a sport for development programme with a vision to utilise sport as a medium to create social change amongst rural children and youth in Anantapur, by aiding in their holistic development, breaking down gender barriers and enhancing livelihood opportunities.

Anantapur Sports Village
LocationAnantapur, Andhra Pradesh
Establishment2000
Capacity6000
OwnerRayalaseema Development Trust
OperatorRayalaseema Development Trust
As of 7 March 2016
Source: Anantapur Sports Academy Official Website

Currently, ASA runs programmes in the seven sporting disciplines of hockey, football, cricket, judo, softball, kho-kho and kabaddi, through 90 centres across Anantapur district engaging more than 10,840 children and youth, with 45% being girls. ASA operates the program through three avenues: Grassroot Program, Development Centres and Anantapur Sports Village (ASV).

Over the past two decades, Anantapur Sports Academy has been working continuously with like-minded organisations both at the grassroots level, including rural schools and respective district/state/national sport federations, as well as larger development initiatives like Pro Sport Development (India), Learning Curve Life Skills Foundation (India), Manipal Academy of Higher Education (India), La Liga Foundation[1] and La Liga Women (Spain), One Million Hockey Legs (Netherlands) and Stick for India (Spain) to attain the vision of achieving social change using sport.

Anantapur Sports Academy received Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puaraskar,[2] the highest award given by the Government of India in Sport For Development.

References
  1. "La Liga officials and Real Betis player to visit Anantapur Sports Academy - Times of India". The Times of India.
  2. "Anantapur academy bags Khel Protsahan Puraskar". The Hindu. 23 August 2019.

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