Abstract
Indian government takes a new initiative to Indian sports society. National sport spolicy 2024 which primary goal is to harness sports as a tool of nation building. It’s objective is to promote sports among people as a people movement and indigenous sports internationally. Sports can increase revenue and job opportunity to peoples in India.
Introduction
India is the secondary largest country with 1.2 billion population which includes one by sixth of world population. India is well known for diversity in culture, Languages, sports, Religion,etc,.India has different climatic and environmental nature in its regions and the culture among people in regions are also deep rooted with them for years. Therefore, India has trouble in having standard National Matters like National Language, National sports, etc,. There is a aged talk like wizard of hockey is the national sport of india and Hindi as a National Language. But there is no official note of it in and designated things . Indian government aims to promote all languages and sports for Nations better.
Ministry of Youth Affairs And Sports is a Government development which deals with Department of Youth affairs and Department of Sports . It aims to promote sports in India. It introduces and conducts many sport fests and National sports events in regions like khelo India winter games (KIWG) , Khelo India Youth Games (KLUG), khelo India University games (KLUG), etc,.Khelo India is one of the major initiatives to promote physical activity among citizens of nation. It also introduced a scheme called Targeted Olympic Podium Scheme is flagship scheme that provides aid to atheletes in preparation for their olympics and para olympics. It provides support to Junior athele in recent years . In 2020 Tokyo olympics , All seven medalist are from Targeted Olympic Podium Scheme and in same 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, 19 out of 20 players are from this scheme. It provides a notable contribution in developing the nation’s sports development.
National sports policy
The Draft of National Sports Policy 2024 was new initiative by Ministry of Youth Affairs And Sports . Its goal is to promote sports and harness sports as a tool for nation building. Each state and central have their own scheme and programs to promote sports . This is the holistic approach by government to develop sports .
The main objective of NSP are
- Developing equitable access to sports infrastructure
- Promoting sports science and innovation
- Enhancing goverence in sports bodies
National sports policy encourages to promote national level sports ecosystem and nurture talent right from grassroot . Block level initiatives focuses on mass participation and talent identification . National athele like Himadas are from these targeted sports scheme. The goals of National sports policy includes
- Economic Development of Nation through sports
The new policy focuses on the economic potential of sports. The government initiates to host international sports events in India and Major competitions and it aims to be a global sports tourism hub . The tourism and revenue for the country will be raised by hosting international and National competitions like Indian premier league which reneves in Billions not entertaining the peoples.
This also increase the demand of sports equipment and it would increase the local production of equipment align with make in India Ideas which also create jobs for citizens.
- Sports for Social Development
The social development in sports are deep . The NSP focuses on encouraginc the participation of women ,LGBTQ+ community , Economically weaker population , tribal population, differently abled people . The NSP also tries to promote indigenous sports like kabbadi and kho kho . The programs like para sports development aims to provide infrastructure and provide talent pathways to atheletes.
- Sports as people movement
One of the major thing in NSP 2024 is focusing to create sport as a people movement and too remove the taboo that the sports is for athelete and professional. That means the sport is not just for athele or professional it is for everyone. Programs such as national fitness ranking and indexing for schools and workplaces to aim to dive into physical fitness everyday. Programs like fit India promotes all ages to follow the physical fitness lifestyle and to follow regular physical activity By conducting mass participation events like yoga session community weekend,etc ,.
- Technology and innovation
This National sports policy 2024 focuses on integrity of science and innovation in sporting events.
Conclusion
The draft of National sports policy 2024 Was initiated to promote sports as a people movement and to make India as a sports hub(global sports powerhouse ).If the policies are implemented properly and then it would change the Indian sports.
FAQ
- What is National sports policy?
Its a policy which developed for bringing revolution in the development of sports in India
- Why sports policy is required for nationally?
National state policy is required for comprehensive nature because state government has many programs to improve sports and union has its own programs.
By
Swathi V
School of excellence in law,
The Tamilnadu Dr Ambedkar Law University, Chennai
