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10. Sports for divyang athletes:
harnessing special abilities
Sport: A strong
soft power
The power of sport to transform a nation is huge. It has
the ability to develop individual personalities of citizens
on the one hand and put the nation on the global map
as a sporting superpower on the other. There is huge
national pride attached to success in sports and it has
the ability to cohesively bind the country beyond caste,
creed, religion and build a happier and healthier
society. India's demographic advantage also holds the
promise of a large pool of sporting talent who can be
nurtured to represent India at the world stage.
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The policies launched from the time of Independence
created a handful of athletes who displayed sparks of
brilliance. Through the 1950s till the turn of the
millennium and for a decade after that, Indian sports
icons who earned international recognition, were
limited to names like Major Dhyanchand, Milkha Singh,
PT Usha, among others. The lack of a focussed culture
to strengthen a sports culture in the country, and
nurture a wide base of talent reflected in our podium
finish results in major International Sports Events in the
past years.
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elite centers. Besides this, 1000 Khelo India Centers (KIC) are
being setup at the district level to strengthen grassroot-level
To provide a higher per capita sports infrastructure in States and to provide a source of
sporting infrastructure across income for local sporting talent by engaging them as coaches
the country in KICs.
2010-2014 – 38
Sports ARUNACHAL
infrastructure PRADESH
projects Sangey Lhaden
Sports Academy NAGALAND
2014-2020 – 267 States Sports
Academy IG
Stadium
MANIPUR
Khuman Lampak
KARNATAKA
Furthering collaboration with State Governments: Sh. Jaiprakash
Sporta Complex
Narayan
Sports being a State subject, the interest of a State to further National Youth MIZORAM
its sporting ambitions is important. In a first-of-its-kind Centre Rajiv Gandhi Stadium
initiative made in 2020, the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports ODISHA
partnered with the States to create world-class sporting Kalinga Stadium
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To create a strong network of community coaches:
Creating a proper pool of skilled coaches at the grassroot
level is the most important aspect of identifying the right
Khelo India Scheme creates talent. Therefore efforts have been made to upgrade the skill
set of physical education
a sports culture in India 15,000 PE teachers and train them into
teachers trained community coaches in
To assess the fitness levels of school going accordance with international
as community
children to identify future champions coaches to best practices. More than
identify young 15,000 PE teachers have been
Identifying sporting talent at a young age is advantageous talent trained as community coaches
since children best suited for a particular sport can be trained under the Khelo India Scheme.
from an early age. To this end more than 23 lakh school going
children in the age group of
5-18 years have been assessed Physical Fitness
using the Khelo India Mobile of 23 lakh school
App. More than 66,000 children assessed
physical education teachers to find future
have been trained to assess the champions
sporting prowess of children.
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Specialised Women’s Only Leagues in Football, Basketball
and Hockey have been introduced to provide a level playing
field for women. At the grassroots level, women athletes
identified through the Khelo India Scheme has seen a steady
rise. The number of elite women athletes supported through
the Target Olympic Podium Scheme has seen a significant rise
too. Financial impetus to support having international
competitions for women in India has seen the hosting of the
World Boxing Championship in New Delhi in 2018, with a
grant of ₹3 crore, from Khelo India.
Shakti se sashaktikaran
India’s women athletes have been making a mark at the
international sports forum consistently in the last few years.
Badminton ace PV Sindhu winning the World Championship in
2019, Legendary Boxer MC Mary Kom bagging the World
Championship title for the sixth time in 2018, are shining
examples of the success of our women athletes. The support
to women athletes at the grassroot and elite level takes on
heightened importance given that 50 per cent of India’s
population is women. The participation of women athletes in
major international competitions has risen steadily, compared
to a decade before, owing to a plethora of schemes that have
been introduced to provide focussed attention to the woman
athlete.
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Sports for divyang athletes:
Harnessing special abilities
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Sports for peace Sports has the ability to
channelize the energy of
and development:
youth in a productive
manner. The reform
principle has thus been to
Sports unites all organise village-level
competitions in respect of
95 DISTRICTS
sports disciplines popular
in the State of Jammu & 95 DISTRICTS
Kashmir and Left Wing
Extremism (LWE) affected
States. In Gulmarg, Jammu
& Kashmir, two editions of
Sports has the ability to
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channelize the energy of youth
in a productive manner. The
STATES
reform principle has thus been
to organise village-level
STATES
competitions in respect of
sports disciplines popular in
the State of Jammu & Kashmir
and Left Wing Extremism
(LWE) affected States. In
Gulmarg, Jammu & Kashmir,
two editions of inaugurated in
Srinagar in March 2021 to make
Jammu & Kashmir the hub of
winter and water sports. A
Khelo India Winter Games has
also been conducted in Ladakh
in February 2020. With an
effort to support the youth
living in LWE affected States,
95 districts in 14 States have
₹₹10
10LAKH
LAKH
been sanctioned ₹10 lakh each
to host sports competition and
identify sporting talent.
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Indigenous
games:
Promoting a
glorious legacy
The Indigenous games of India are an inherent
part of its culture and heritage panning several
centuries. Preserving these games and
popularising it among India’s youth as well as
internationally therefore finds immediate
merit. The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
has taken consistent steps to ensure that these
games find a place of pride and have hosted
36 exclusive Indigenous Games
championships across 19 venues of India under
the Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat Scheme in
2019-20. Besides, four popular sports, namely
Mallakhamb from Maharashtra, Kalaripayyattu
from Kerala, Gatka from Punjab and Thang-Ta
from Manipur have been identified for special
support and have been included in the Khelo
India Youth Games 2021, to give the
sportspersons of indigenous games a national
platform. Financial support in the form of a
monthly scholarship of ₹10,000 have been
given to 335 deserving athletes. The feather
₹₹10,000
10,000
in the cap however, would be the recognition
of Yogasana as a sport and the formation of
the National Yogasana Sports Federation,
which was achieved after a deliberation of
335
335 ATHLETES
ATHLETES
over 5 years. Yogasana, India’s gift to the
World has now found its rightful place in
India’s sports ecosystem.
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Impact of 1
Talent developed through
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Impact of 1 especially ex sportspersons and
post their coaches, while creating
Khelo India sporting
career
grassroot level talent pool
of athletes.
S.No. Category Before After
Support to No structured 500 private academies in
1 Sports Sports 267 infrastructure projects private support to various sports disciplines
infrastructure infrastructure sanctioned in SAI, State players the private being funded by the
availability was restricted Governments and other institutions of Sports Ministry to ensure
to larger cities eligible entities, including 2 sports. eligible entities
and towns, Khelo India Centre of contributing to the sports
with aspiring Excellence in States and ecosystem are amply
athletes from Khelo India Centres in supported.
Tier 2 and 3 districts to ensure athletes
cities not have access to Use of No such The Khelo India
getting easy infrastructure. digital endeavours MobileApp launched by
access to medium to were made. Hon’ble PM in 2019 has
sporting transform assessed the fitness
infrastructure. sport parameters of more than
23 lakh school children,
Partnership Association Continuous hand holding thus identifying future
with States with States to build a robust sports sporting talent from the
restricted to ecosystem in the States. age of 5 years.
funding for This includes capacity
sports building of sports
projects infrastructure, support with
resources such as expert
3000
coaches, training
equipment, sports science 2500
support. Bright examples 100
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Nurturing sporting
excellence
The natural progression of grassroot-level talent
identification and nurturing is support to athletes
who make it to the elite level. With an effort to give
personalised support to elite athletes and to
provide best-in-class training, coaching, equipment
and sports science support to India’s elite athletes,
the following reforms have been put in place:
Gold
Improving India’s
global fitness index
60
50
38 36
Silver
40
27 30
26 Bronze
22 20 20
17 19
20 15
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0
FIT INDIA PLOG RUN
2006 2010 2014 2018
On 2nd October 2019 - the
150th Birth Anniversary of
Mahatma Gandhi, Fit India
Plog Run was organized
which saw a participation
70
80 of over 30 lakh people
across the country.
70
65
Asian FIT INDIA CYCLOTHON
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Games (AG) 53 Took place between
50
December 2020 to
January 2021 and saw a
Gold 40 36 participation of 1.2 crore
34
Silver 36 31 people. The second
30
26 edition of the event took
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Bronze place in December 2020
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Total
16 and saw more than 15 lakh
11
10
10 10 registrations and
participation.
0
2006 2010 2014 2018
FIT INDIA PRABHATPHERI
FIT INDIA Prabhatpheri in December 2020 also saw a
huge community participation with more than 55,000
community walks organized to create awareness on
fitness.
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FIT INDIA Freedom Run
The Fit India Freedom FIT INDIA School Week
Run was organised to
Fitness as a way of life should start at a
celebrate our 74th
young age. With this in mind, the Fit India
Independence Day from
School Week was launched in 2019 with
15th of August till 2nd
an effort to inculcate fitness habits among
October (151st birth
school children, while creating an
anniversary of Mahatma
awareness among parents and teachers.
Gandhi). This virtual run,
Over 4.3 lakh schools have participated
where people could run at
in the 2020 edition of the Fit India School
a place and pace of their
Week, which was organised virtually.
choice, saw over 7 crore
people participating. FIT INDIA School Certification
FIT INDIA Flag, 3-Star and 5-Star Fit India
The Reform, launched for the first time as a People’s School certificates have been given to
Movement on August 29, 2019, is a result of the vision of schools across the country, based on
Hon’ble Prime Minister. It was his clarion call to make India a physical activities organised for children
Fit Nation that is the starting point of this Movement. A fit and sporting infrastructure available in
nation has fit citizens, who can make a greater contribution to schools. So far, a total of 2.67 lakhs
the economy. Since its launch, lakhs of Indians have schools have been awarded with the FIT
participated in a range of fitness activities across the country. INDIA Flag, whereas over 38,000 and
Even during the pandemic, virtual fitness sessions organised 12,500 schools have registered for Fit
under this movement helped citizens to stay mentally and India 3 Star and 5 Star School
physically fit. The Movement engages citizens of all age Certification respectively.
groups, right from school children to senior citizens. Here’s a
look at all the events that citizens have taken up under the
Movement:
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FIT INDIA Dialogue
On the occasion of the 1st anniversary of Excellence in Sports
the Fit India Movement, a first of its kind as National Pride:
– “Fit India Dialogue” was hosted in
September 2020 by the Hon’ble Sports Unearthing Providing a holistic
Minister. In this unique event the Hon’ble Champions: environment with world Sports
Prime Minister interacted with notable class facilities to resulting from Extra
top fitness influencers of the country, Sustained in Indian athletes getting Curricular
emphasizing the imperative need of support to podium finish, establishing to Regular
fitness and gave the clarion call to Indians proficient India as a sporting Curriculum:
to spend 30 minutes daily on their athletes from powerhouse on the global
Fitness, - “Fitness Ka Dose Adha Ghanta grassroot to map. The
Roz”. The Fit India Dialogue has become development alignment
the centrepiece for conversations about to elite stage. of the
fitness. Hand-holding sports as
Fit India Youth Club Certification through their an integral
sporting part of the
With the vision of engaging the youth in school
journey
Fitness activities and to make them curriculum
through
agents of change, Fit India Youth Clubs .
seamless
were launched on 15th August, 2020.
support.
47,133 Fit India Youth Clubs have already
been registered across the country.
Impact going
A systematic and consolidated
forward
Sports policy intervention in the form
for All: of Khelo India that ensures A distinct change in mindset
availability of sports facility to around fitness owing to Fit
every part of the country Fitness
in focus: India Movement . Fitness
becomes way of life for every
Indians
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India Speaks:
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MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA