With Bhubaneswar rising as a serious sports activities hub within the nation, the Odisha authorities has taken an vital determination to incorporate sports activities within the faculty curriculum from the following educational yr.
As per the choice by the State authorities, sports activities will likely be made necessary within the faculty curriculum within the subsequent section.
Odisha has organised many nationwide and worldwide degree tournaments within the State. The state authorities can be supporting many sports activities like hockey, kho-kho, rugby and swimming. With the internet hosting of many mega hockey tournaments together with the Males’s Hockey World Cup in Odisha, the State has been reworked right into a hockey hob.
The Odisha authorities has made a provision of Rs 1,217 crore for sports activities within the State finances. A number of tasks with an expenditure quantity of Rs 2,500 crore are at present below building within the State. Odisha authorities has additionally began many Excessive-Efficiency Facilities with the assistance of company homes within the State for excellence of various sports activities occasions. As many as 17 astro turfs have been laid in Sundargarh which is popularly generally known as the nursery of hockey. Furthermore, 89 multi-purpose indoor stadiums have been constructed in several city areas throughout the State. Odisha authorities has additionally developed as many as six FIFA customary pitches at completely different locations.
As per sources, the Odisha authorities will give attention to cricket within the coming days.
“The Birsa Munda Worldwide Hockey Stadium in Sundargarh has been formally recognised as the most important hockey stadium on the earth by coming into the Guinness E book of Data. We’ve additionally taken different transformative initiatives below 5T for the event of sports activities within the State. The finances of the Sports activities Division has elevated manifold and it’s at present round Rs 1300 crore which is the very best for any State within the nation,” mentioned Sports activities Minister Tusharkanti Behera.
In the meantime, Sports activities Secretary R Vineel Krishna mentioned, “We’ve taken completely different initiatives like coaching of PETs. We’re additionally involving faculty college students throughout completely different championships and grassroots programmes within the State. We’ve inked a pact with Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) below which round 1.5 lakh college students from 250 faculties are collaborating in Olympic Worth Schooling Programmes. Our effort is to combine sports activities into the varsity curriculum. We’re planning to start out the initiative from the following educational yr.”
