The centre will meet the cost of entire education of all medal winning students in the Common Wealth Games. This will cover both the tuition fee and maintenance cost including Hostel fee.Announcing this, Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal said , this is being done as a token of appreciation and a gesture towards encouraging sports talent among students of all categories. He said that while the expenditure for college going and University students, including those in professional colleges, will be borne by the University Grants Commission , the Central Board of Secondary Education will bear all such expenditure of students in Schools, irrespective of whether they are in CBSE affiliated schools or not.