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Asian rowing meet

Andhra Pradesh will host the Asian Rowing championships at Hyderabad from October 18 to 23, the state Olympic Association, Chairman, L Rajagopal announced here today. Talking to newspersons here, he said 20 countries, including China and Japan, will participate in the event. Meanwhile, Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh (SAAP) chairman Makhan Singh Thakur, who inaugurated the Sapaktakraw Association here, said the state government had hiked the budget for sports promotion from Rs 18 crore to 38 crore with special focus on indigenous sports, including Kabbadi and Kho-Kho, to identify talent. This would be done through the ''Rajiv Grameen Kreeda Vikas'' scheme, he added. He also announced that a synthetic track for athletics would be provided in Vijayawada.