Sports need a revamp in India. Traditionally, sports have never been an integrated part of the Indian education system in general. We can easily see in every school that Physical Training classes were replaced by the science or math’s class under the pretext of “syllabus completion”. However, the inclusion of sports in the syllabus is just for the sake of formality, said Nikky Pradhan the first woman Hockey Olympian from Jharkhand.
She was expressing her views in a webinar organised by the Indian Pierre De Coubertin Association (IPCA), a nodal national entity with international recognition assigned for the dissemination of Olympic Education & Olympism into the grassroots of Indian Sports.
The First International Webinar was organised on the eve of World Sports Journalist Day.
“Sports play a vital role in making children strong from inside while inculcating the importance of maintaining a fit and sound body. It helps in the development of focus and concentration, in-turn assists during studies,” she said.
