She is also going to demand greater transparency from the sports federations across the country. ``So many sportspersons come to me with complaints. The federations have to learn to talk properly to sportspeople. I am going to make sure that each issue is looked into,'' she said firmly.

She also has a dream, she said, that of creating a sports university in the country. ``About 4,000-5,000 children, from Class I to university, will reside there. All their academic needs will be provided for and their time will be equally divided between sports and studies. As of now, it is just a seed in mymind.''

To start off she would make sports a concurrent list subject, Uma Bharati said. Some states are yet to send in their assent to this, ``but West Bengal has agreed after I made a personal request,'' she said.

Delighted at India's gold-winning performance, especially Jyotirmoyee Sikdar's feats she said, ``I strongly believe our athletes have the talent. It is the system that fails them. And it is we who are part of the system who are to blame: the bureaucrats who frame the rules, the federations who often create difficulties and the politicians who apply pressure to alter selections.''

She said there would be a radical change in the sports policy of the country, which she would formulate in the ``next 10-15 days''. ``I am also going to take a meeting of industrial houses after that to tell them that glamour is not in cricket alone,'' she added, saying that she had created the sports development fund for primarily this purpose.

After all, she said, ``how much money is allotted to sports? A paltryRs 175 crore, of which half does into SAI salaries alone.''