Chief Minister's Sportspersons Livelihood Guarantee Scheme

What is the Chief Minister's Sportspersons Livelihood Guarantee Scheme?

Chief Minister's Sportspersons Livelihood Guarantee Scheme is a Manipur state scheme announced by the Chief Minister of Manipur, to be run through the Youth Affairs and Sports Department, Government of Manipur. The scheme was announced alongside a set of other livelihood schemes, and offers skill development training and livelihood financial assistance to sportspersons of the state who could not secure national or international honours and did not obtain a government job through sport. Its first phase was announced as covering 1,000 sportspersons.

This guide must be explicit about its limits. As of August 2026, no scheme guideline, gazette notification, application form or benefit rate for this scheme was available on any Government of Manipur website that could be reached. The Chief Minister's office website, cmmanipur.gov.in, was serving a placeholder page, and the Youth Affairs and Sports Department's own site was not resolving. Everything below that is not attributed to the launch announcement is flagged as unpublished rather than filled in with an assumption.

Why Manipur announced a scheme for sportspersons

Manipur produces a disproportionate share of India's elite athletes for its population, particularly in boxing, weightlifting, football, hockey and archery. The state's sports system therefore has a specific problem at its base: for every athlete who reaches a national podium and a sports-quota government job, a much larger number train for years, represent their district or state, and then reach their late twenties with no qualification, no job and no transferable income.

Chief Minister's Sportspersons Livelihood Guarantee Scheme is aimed exactly at that group. The design announced: skill training plus livelihood assistance, rather than a pension or a prize, reflects the intention to move an athlete into an alternative livelihood, not to compensate them for a career that did not happen.

Who can and cannot be covered?

Based on the announced description, and stated as such:

The announced target group is:

• Sportspersons of Manipur who trained and competed.
• Those who did not win national or international honours.
• Those who did not secure a government job on the strength of their sporting career.
• Residents of Manipur, since this is a state scheme.

Outside the announced group, and therefore not eligible:

• Sportspersons already in government employment obtained through the sports quota, since the scheme exists precisely for those who did not get one.
• Athletes who did win the national or international honours the scheme is meant to compensate for the absence of.
• People who are not residents of Manipur.
• People with no record of competitive sports participation at all.

Age limits, discipline lists, a minimum level of competition, and any income condition have not been published. A sportsperson should not assume they are excluded on any of those grounds, nor assume they are included.

How to apply for the Sportspersons Livelihood Guarantee Scheme

No application form or window has been notified. The realistic route today is:

1. Contact the Youth Affairs and Sports Department, Government of Manipur, or your district sports office, and ask whether enrolment for the current phase of the scheme is open and how names are being identified.
2. Ask through your state sports association or district sports association. Where a scheme has no public form, athlete identification usually runs through recognised associations and coaches, so being on your association's rolls matters.
3. Assemble your record now — participation and placing certificates for every state, district and national competition you entered, your identity proof, residence proof and bank account details with IFSC code.
4. Ask for the scheme guideline in writing. If a district office is enrolling names, there is a guideline behind it; ask for its number and date so you can check what you are entitled to.
5. Do not pay anyone to have your name added to a sportspersons list. No fee has been announced for this scheme.

What is not published about this scheme

• The assistance amount, its frequency and its duration.
• The skill training courses offered and who delivers them.
• The selection process and the authority that approves names.
• The application form, the window and the last date.
• Whether the 1,000 first-phase figure has since been expanded.
• Any helpline number. None is listed in this guide because none could be verified.

Where to get help

The Youth Affairs and Sports Department, Government of Manipur is the department responsible. Approach it directly, or through your district sports office or recognised state sports association. General state notifications are published on manipur.gov.in.

An editorial note for readers: until the Youth Affairs and Sports Department notifies a guideline, this scheme is best understood as announced rather than documented. Treat any specific rupee figure circulating for it: on any website, including this one's absence of one, as unconfirmed until a departmental notification exists to support it.