ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION IN PERFORMANCE TRAINING & SPORTS
THE GAP
Rural and Tribal Maharashtra
The system works well for athletes who find it. Many of Maharashtra's tribal and rural youth haven't had the chance to.
THE APPROACH
Sports potential sitting beyond the reach of systems
UNTIL NOW
Primary physiological surveys. Residential camps & programmes. A zero-compromise performance ecosystem. A pipeline from hamlet to national circuit.
POLICY ALIGNMENT
Directly responding to provisions of Khelo Bharat Niti 2025 and past sports policies - including science-backed identification and the narrowing the state-level data deficit.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
India is not short of athletic talent. It is short of systems that go where the talent is, develop it without compromise, and prepare athletes for everything the sport will ask of them - on the field and beyond it
01.
INFORMS
Initiative for Field Outreach and Research for Maharashtra Sports
Our research and policy cell. Through systematic physiological and anthropometric surveys across Maharashtra's rural & tribal belts, we generate the primary field evidence that both feeds the ADOPT pipeline and gives Maharashtra the data infrastructure its sports policy mandates but currently falls behind on.
02.
FINDS
Fostering Indigenous Talent and Nurturing Development in Sports
Our talent identification programme. Children shortlisted from INFORMS surveys enter residential camps where expert coaches assess athletic potential and introduce sport as a career. Every child who attends - selected or not - leaves with a new frame of reference for sport as a livelihood, seeding a culture change in communities where that understanding has never existed.
03.
BRIDGES
Building Resilient Interventions for Development and Growth of Elite Sports
Our high-performance development programme. Where identified talent is systematically converted into national and international competitive excellence through a zero-compromise performance ecosystem - alongside a structured SEL & life skills curriculum that prepares athletes not just to compete at the highest level, but to navigate the world that level of competition opens to them & the world beyond sports.
THREE STAGES. ONE CONTINUOUS PIPELINE
THE GAP WE FILL
India's state and national talent identification programmes play a critical role in the sports development ecosystem - but they are designed for athletes who have already found their way to the system. ADOPT Sports works upstream of that entry point, reaching communities that haven't yet connected with these systems and building the baseline talent pool that makes the broader ecosystem stronger.
ALIGNED WITH INDIA'S SPORTS DEVELOPMENT VISION
Built for Khelo Bharat Niti 2025
India's Khelo Bharat Niti 2025 mandates science-backed talent identification in tribal communities, a National Monitoring Framework, and state governments as primary implementers. ADOPT Sports is designed to be Maharashtra's ground-level partner in fulfilling these commitments - generating the primary field data the National Monitoring Framework is designed to draw on, and providing the field presence that translates policy into action at the community level.
KBN 2025 PROVISIONS THAT ADOPT SPORTS ADDRESSES
Science-backed talent identification in tribal and rural communities
Hamlet-level talent development using anthropometric parameters
Block and community-level sports culture building
Athlete-centric development ecosystems with sports science and psychology
Private sector and CSR funding - Adopt an Athlete,
One Corporate - One Sport