Sports-related subjects for college kids

                                                                     

All work and no play has, for long, had a detrimental effect on the mind and body of young Indians. But it seems that the govt is awakening to the matter — eventually . The announcement that an expert committee of the Union ministry of youth affairs and sports is prepared with the blueprint of a National Sports Education Board, which can offer students sports-related subjects aside from the regular curriculum, comes as a ray of hope. There are variety of reasons to be optimistic about the chances

of such a development. For one, children in India are traditionally discouraged by their families — social pressure plays its role too — from pursuing sports as a career

albeit they excel in it. This tendency to look at sports as a non-lucrative professional prospect could be remedied by the NSEB proposal. The latter will enable students to be tested on sports-related subjects along side conventional ones in their board examinations; crucially, they're going to be offered an opportunity to defer their exams, a privilege that was hitherto only granted to established athletes, not aspiring ones. as long as sport is essentially viewed as an extra-curricular activity to be eventually given up in favour of ‘serious’ subjects, these elements within the NSEB plan might open up avenues for college kids to pursue a multidisciplinary approach, a trait that's encouraged by most institutions of excellence.
Achieving sporting excellence has been a dream for India. The country’s consistent abysmal showing at the Olympics — it's the worst record in terms of medals per head — is rightly attributed, among other things, to a scarcity of funding, modern infrastructure and training, bureaucratic meddling also as — this could not be ignored — unimaginative policy. Arming students curious about sports with intellectual rigour might be beneficial. it might not only offer students a various set of disciplines to settle on from but also aid the athlete within the application of strategy learnt within the classroom on to the sector . If the NSEB succeeds in delivering its goals, it'll facilitate an important transition, transforming India’s youth into a constituency with able bodies and agile minds.

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