Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan has explained that the chance to make money from cricket and channelising it to other sports was the main reason for him to get involved with the Cricket Board-promoted Indian Premier League. This has come in Indian Express and other media.

In respect of chess I would like to highlight some thing.

N Srinivasan President of All India Chess Federation, Treasure of BCCI and Head of India Cement is offering Dhoni to play for 20 days in a year and for three years (around 60 days) Rs 6 Crores that is Rs. 10 lacks per day and same Srinivasan is offering Grandmaster in Chess Rs.1000/- per day. Others chess players only Rs.500/- .
http://www.indianchessfed.org/News/2008/January/natI13Girls/appealtoourplayerscoachingprogramme.asp

Appeal to Our Senior Players / IMS' / WIM's / GM's / WGM's / FM's and coaches

AICF proposes to short list the names of coaches who are interested to coach our players and prepare them for National and International tournaments. Those interested are requested to send a mail to AICF with their Bio-data and achievements in coaching if any. The AICF shall pay Rs.10,000/- for GM's and RS.7,000/- or Rs 5000/- for others for a ten day coaching programme. For outstation coaches AICF will reimburse, on production of tickets, third A/c train fare and shall take care of the local hospitality. Those interested may kindly send your mail immediately.
Thies is real sheet.

In IFFI 2007 Volunteers were offered Rs.750/- per day.

This how the top officials of All India Chess Federation thinks about chess players.

Dronacharya Awardee Chess Coach Shri Raghynandan Gokhale has said in a interview recently appered in Navindtimes that minimum apperiance that a GrandMaster get is Rs.30,000/-.

How one can expect that good coach is goint to apply for coaching appel of AICF.
Please also note that there are only 16 Grandmaster in India and around 60 IM's. As also total 100 chess players including GM and IM in India who has ELO rating of 2300+.