Sports

Sports Ministry receives $24.1m

June 28, 2018 5:00 pm

The Ministry of Youth and Sports has been allocated $24.1 million for the new financial year 2018/2019.

It has increase of $1 million from the last budget.

The government has allocated more than $15 million for review of the sports policy, sports education, hosting of international tournaments, the 2018 Oceania 7s tournament, sports scholarship and the construction of rural sports fields and complexes.

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Fiji National Sports Commission has been given $1 million for looking after the needs of all the sporting federations and its tournaments.

The government has also allocated around $4 million for hosting of international tournaments and around $3 million for sports outreach program.