This is completely false, sports is part of academics such as schools and colleges and even we have dedicated quota for sports for college and even for government jobs that encourages the youngsters to play but what we lack is the infrastructure to take this to the next level. As of now their goal is to get a government job like in railways by playing sports that is why the best players are sitting at clerical jobs.

In India the business for football is no where compared to cricket and the same goes for every sports in India and cricket is kind of curse in that way that just dragged every kids to fantasize about becoming a cricketer because they can get rich and million dollar ad sponsors and many more while other successful athletes may not even make any money even if they achieve the greatest height they can go.