Our federation files show Odisha pledged around ₹150 crores over five years, and what they got was the pride of seeing the national teams wear their state's name on their chests. But as an administrator from Haryana, I see a deeper return: they bought belief. Here, in the land of akhadas, we know you cannot put a price on the dream that springs up when a child sees that jersey. My own small savings for a water filter get postponed for my daughter’s cricket kit—because sponsorship isn’t a bill, it’s planting a seed in hard mitti.
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