To Make Sports a compulsory subject in schools

MAKE SPORTS A COMPULSORY SUBJECT IN SCHOOLS

Petitioning Union HRD Minister

A Tata Tea Campaign in association with Network 18

Our country harbours some of the world’s most powerful business leaders, innovators, engineers, doctors, professors and scientists. This has been possible by the importance an average Indian household attaches to education. Sports, however, is not considered ‘education’ in India. It is relegated as a play-time or extra-curricular activity that children take up when they are free from academics.

Kids are naturally drawn to sports. It helps them express their emotions, gain confidence, build self-esteem and competitiveness, and learn team spirit. However, we, as a society don’t let sports last beyond childhood. A familiar adage goes: “Padhoge, likhoge, banoge nawab; kheloge, kudoge, hoge kharab,” (If you study hard, you will live like a king; but if you play sports, you will ruin your life.) This mindset needs to change.

Our education system must recognize the importance of engaging children in sports. Since children spend most of their day in schools, a pro-active approach towards promoting sports in schools can kindle their interest and inspire them to go further. Sports has to be given the status of a ‘subject’ taught in schools and be given the same weightage as other compulsory subjects.

To make our schools sport-education ready, we need to close out two important touch points:

1. If we want our youth to walk shoulder to shoulder with international sportsmen and women, we must train them in a world-class learning environment. Schools must be equipped with necessary sports infrastructure - be it a sports ground, a gymnasium, or sports equipment and this has to be ensured by the government.

2. We need to identify, train and equip sports coaches and teachers that can cater to our ever growing student population.

The Sports Ministry has proposed to the Human Resource Development Ministry (HRD) to make sports a compulsory subject in schools. However, the department of school education, which comes under the HRD ministry, has informed the sports ministry the majority of the schools were under the jurisdiction of the state governments and that it was for the state governments to take a policy decision.

If adopted, this policy change will impact 36 states and union territories, which have 14.5 lakh-odd schools with nearly 197 million students. This needs the involvement of several ministries, state level education boards and sporting experts to make a change at this scale happen; and this change will not be put into action unless we ask for it in one united voice . We need to be pre-activists and recognize the urgency of giving sports its rightful place in the Indian education system.

Our Petition is to the HRD Ministry , to work with the sports ministry and implement sports as a compulsory subject in schools, and to advice state governments to implement this across all educational instit utions.

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If children are encouraged to pursue sport as much as the other subjects in schools, India will see sport becoming an integral part of her culture.

To solve the problem at the grassroots, we petition to the HRD Ministry to make sports a compulsory subject in schools.

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Petitioning Union HRD Minister

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TO MAKE SPORTS A COMPULSORY SUBJECT IN SCHOOLS

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Thanks to you, sports could play a larger role in the Indian education system

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It’s time to be pre-activists and push for meaningful changes in the situation of sports in India. It’s time to do our bit towards building a sporting culture.

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Here's how you can help build a culture of sports

Your pre-active steps as an individual can help build a culture of sport in our country. Here are a few ways in which you can honour your pledge:

1. Support the local sports scene
To cultivate interest in sports and sportspeople at a national level, we need to start at the local level. Get to know local athletes around you and attend local sporting events around you.

2. Encourage children to take up sports
Enable an environment in which children are driven to pick up a sport. Buy the necessary equippment or seek coaching that'll help your child.

3. Make sports a family affair
Play a sport together as a family. Create an environment where sports is a part of family activities - this benefits both, the adults and the kids as well.

4. Showcase sportspersons as role models to children
Make an example out of the sportpersons to kids. Cite traits of sportspersons such as perserverance and discipline that'll positively reinforce the desired behaviour in a child.

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