The union cabinet, earlier this week, approved a ₹29,054 crore outlay for the Khelo India Scheme along with ₹7,387 crore for the Assistance to National Sports Federations Scheme (ANSF). Revealing the finer details of the Khelo India Scheme fund, the Sports Ministry said the central share from the corpus would be ₹28,489 crore and the state share has been set at ₹565 crore. The new outlay is eight times the funds earmarked for the previous Khelo India Scheme, which only had provisions for central funding with no specific fund or role assigned to states. Currently, there are close to 3000 Khelo India Athletes across 22 sports. ANSF was launched in 2001 and functions as a supplemental support scheme for National Sports Federations.