A fit and healthy person leads to a fit and powerful society and country. Sports are critical to the general growth of our country. India has achieved significant growth in sports during the previous five years.
It’s time to encourage youthful talent and provide them with world-class facilities and training. We must promote a strong sense of involvement in athletics that allows athletes to reach their full potential. Khelo India programme is one such initiative taken by the Indian government to uplift this ecosystem.
The federal government presented a proposal to parliament in 2017 for a redesigned Khelo India programme (Play India). The change was intended to promote broad involvement as well as sporting excellence. The approach, on the other hand, was designed to solve a larger issue: resource allocation.
The Khelo India programme sought to provide 1,000 chosen athletes with an annual scholarship of 500,000 apiece for an eight-year period. The programme cost the government a total of 1,756 crores in the first two years, from 2017-18 to 2019-20. In addition, the government vowed to promote 20 institutions across India as sports excellence centres. The law was approved by the Union Cabinet unanimously.
The Khelo India programme was revised to focus on the influence of the whole sports environment, including community sports, equipment, training for excellence, talent identification, competition format and the sports economy.
While previous sports programmes concentrated on equipment, the new initiative, according to sports minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, is centred on developing skills and linking rural India to global competitions.
Individual sports are only available to selected students under the age of seventeen—the top eight athletes from the school games organisation of India’s National School Games. One nominee from the Central Board of Secondary Education, one from the host state and one from the organising committee will represent the federation. For Archery, Badminton and Shooting, the top sixteen from the National School Games, eight federation nominations, one from CBSE, one from the hosting slate, one from the organising committee and six from wild cards will be picked.
During the first edition of the Khelo India School Games in 2017, the second edition has evolved into a Central Government project. It has increased its scope and will allow competitors to participate in two main categories: Under-17 and Under-21.
The Khelo India Youth Games initiative was created to revitalise India’s sports culture at the grassroots level by creating a solid framework for all sports and establishing India as a popular sports nation.
The Khelo India initiative has been organised into 12 verticals to achieve the above goals:
There is no doubt in the fact that sports are necessary for the growth of an individual as well as the country. Sports are a vital factor in increasing the soft power of the country. So it’s necessary to promote sports culture in the country, especially countries like India, which have so much potential. One of the main objectives of the Khelo India programme is to develop a strong sense of engagement in sports that allows participants to show off their actual abilities on the global level. The goal is to positively influence the whole sports ecosystem, which includes sports economics, competitive structure, talent identification, coaching and infrastructure.
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