Bid to promote rifle shooting

The National Sports Council was established under the chairmanship of Dr. Maiya Gunasekara to seek advice to the Ministry of Sports in finding solutions to the problems encountered by the sports associations and in finding new talent from the rural areas to bring them to the national sporting squads.

The Minister of Sports, Mahindananda Aluthgamage's attention has been brought to bringing in foreign coaches for selected sporting events as per the information gathered by the National Sports Council after inquiring from the national sports associations. The National Sports Council has extended suggestions stating that foreign coaching should be extended to selected sports such as diving, badminton, athletics, hockey, squash, boxing, and judo.

The Ministry of Sports states that the Minister of Sports, Hon. Mahindananda Aluthgamage has advised the relevant officials.

The Ministry of Sports states that as per the National Sports Council's advice attention has been drawn to develop rifle shooting in Sri Lanka.

As Sri Lanka has the advantage of winning 6-7 medals in rifle which consists of 20 events, the Ministry of Sports' attention has been drawn to establishing mobile training units. Further the Ministry of Sports states that the Ministry if attentive towards engaging the shooters from the Northern and Eastern Provinces in this sport.

The National Sports Council has advised the Ministry of Sports to facilitate athletics with sports psychologists.

Further, the National Sports Council has forwarded many suggestions to uplift sporting events such as rifle shooting, netball, hockey, rugby, football, and judo.