Khelo India school games
Introduction:
Khelo India school games (KISG) are the national level multidisciplinary grassroot games in India for under 17 years school kids to participate across 16 disciplines, which was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 31st January 2018 at Indira Gandhi Arena, New Delhi. The objective of KISG is to identify the Talent at grassroot level and revive the sports Culture by building a strong Framework for all sports played in our country.
Nodal ministry:
The KISG works under the ministry of youth affairs and sports.
Body part with advantages:
To accomplish the above objective KISG has been divided into 12 verticles such as physical fitness of school children, formation of state level khelo India centres, encouraging the development of women sport, annual sports organisation, topnotch infrastructure and promotion of rural and tribal games. Every year best thousand kids will be given an annual scholarship of rupees 5 lakh for 8 years.
Challenges:
Some challenges comes in the way of KISG i.e less popularity of a sports like Judo, Kho-Kho, swimming etc, less number of broadcaster and problem of sponsorship.
Suggestions:
According to new research only 3 games are viewed more in India that is cricket 85%
tennis 44% and football 41% but we should try to promote each and every game and encourage every sports related activity show that a sports person can perform efficiently.
Conclusion:
Sports inculcate Team Spirit, develop strategic and analytical thinking, leadership skills, goal settings and risk taking therefore KISG helps in overall development of our nation and in this way it will transform India into a global Sporting powerhouse in the upcoming years and prove to be a game changer that Indian Sports has been looking for.
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