An economic and sports performance relationship in India

The purpose of this study is to find out the relationship between investment of finance and sports performance in India. The study was conducted in the period 2012 to 2016 that includes seasons 2011–2012, 2012–2013, 2013–2014, 2014–2015 and 2015–2016. The sources of collecting data was various governing body of games and sports in India; their official websites i.e. IOC, IOA, OCA, government website of finance and Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. Only the achievement in international games & sports like winner in any tournament and gold, silver and bronze medallists in any discipline was considered as achievement in game and sports and taken into consideration in this study. Year wish games and sports budgeting which is officially announced by finance minister of India in every years was taken into consideration. Total number of international events which were occurred in each year taken as a variable of this study. The mean and standard deviation of the variables were employed as a descriptive statistic. A Pearson Product Moment correlation was employed to see the correlation among the variables by setting 0.05 level of significance. The result was expelled significance between sports performance and the years. A linear positive correlation was found between sports performance and the Years.