Kathmandu, Sept. 14 -- Similar to other state institutions, sports ministries and councils at the central and provincial levels have long been abused as recruitment centres for political loyalists, often led by individuals with no sporting background and those who have never experienced athletes' struggles firsthand.

Sports entities also see changes in their leadership when the government changes, leading to a lack of continuity in a programme brought by the former one.

Since CPN (Maoist Centre)'s Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' was appointed as the first Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal in August 2008, and until CPN-UML's KP Sharma Oli's resignation on September 9, there had been 13 government changes in 17 yea...