Arjuna awardee Shakti Singh effectiveness as sports administrator and promoter: A case study

Abstract

The current study's objective was to assess Shakti Singh's effectiveness as a sports administrator and promoter. He was the laureate of the Arjuna Award. Mr. Shakti Singh is the chief coach of the national centre of excellence in Patiala right now. Using a self-structured, open-ended questionnaire created by the researcher, a sample of 25 male and female participants respectively, as well as several demographic variables like gender and level of participation association, were evaluated to determine each participant's effectiveness as an administrator and promoter. The survey asks 18 questions, which must be completed in a certain amount of time using the Likert scale. Using IBM SPSS 20.0's chi-square test, the correlation was evaluated. For degree of freedom 3 and 1, the chi-square result for gender, and level of accomplishment yielded sig. values of 0.707, and 0.158, respectively, which were insignificant since they were higher than 0.05. According to the replies received and the researcher's interactions with different athletes and officials, Mr. Shakti's efficacy was widely acknowledged and his aspirations for sports, notably track and field, are obvious.

Key Words:- Shakti Singh, Arjun Award, Effectiveness, Administrator/Promotor and Chi-square