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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="general-sciences" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1890</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>General Sciences</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>A STUDY OF SPORTS INFRASTRUCTURE IN COLLEGES FOR WOMEN AFFILIATED TO GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY, AMRITSAR, INDIA&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Yadav</surname><given-names>Brij Bhushan</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Singh</surname><given-names>Amritpreet</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Gaurav</surname><given-names>Vishaw</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume/><issue/><fpage>105</fpage><lpage>110</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Guru Nanak Dev University has occupied a unique place in the Indian Universities by winning Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy for record 21 times. To investigate its unparallel achievements in sports, relevant data for the study was collected from 27 colleges for women affiliated to Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India. A standardized questionnaire was used for data collection. Information regarding number of physical education teacher and coaches, total point/sports performance, ground staff, play fields, total budget/expenditure on sports, total number of sports person__ampersandsignlsquo;s participation in inter-college tournaments and total strength of students of the colleges were collected which were taken as independent variables, sports performance of respective college was treated as dependent variable. The colleges under study are spread over five districts in Punjab, i.e. Gurdaspur ,Amritsar, Jalandhar, Kapurthala and Nawansahar , correlation and step wise regression equation was used to analyse the data. The results of present study indicated that the budget/expenditure incurred on sports in the colleges was the most important factor which can be held responsible for achievement in sports performance of the college in sports arena.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>MAKA trophy</kwd><kwd> sports performance</kwd><kwd> budget/expenditure.</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
