Lok Sabha Question No. 4303 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-01-07
Subject: Sports for Girls Students
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: NIHAL CHAND CHAUHAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION AND LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4303 TO BE ANSWERED ON 7 th  JANUARY, 2019

## Sports for Girls Students

## †4303. SHRI NIHAL CHAND:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government proposes to formulate a separate scheme for promoting sports for girl students in view of their increasing participation and good results thereof in sports; and (b) if so, the details thereof?

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

## ANSWER (DR. SATYA PAL SINGH)

(a) & (b): Department of School Education and Literacy has launched an Integrated Scheme for School Education-Samagra  Shiksha,  subsuming  three  erstwhile  Centrally  Sponsored  Schemes  of  Sarva  Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and Teacher Education (TE) with effect from 1st  April,  2018.  The  new  integrated  scheme  envisages  school  education  as  a  continuum  from  preschool to senior secondary level and aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education at all levels. The scheme includes the Sports and Physical Education component under which provision for grants for sports equipments for indoor & outdoor games in all government schools has been made.

Under the Samagra Shiksha, provision has been made for grant for sports equipments at the rate of Rs. 5000 for Primary Schools, Rs. 10,000 for upper primary schools and up to Rs. 25,000 for secondary and senior secondary schools per annum. In the year 2018-19, an outlay of Rs. 50690.37 lakh under sports grant for 894307 schools, has been approved under Samagra Shiksha.

Besides, under the Samagra Shiksha, self-defence training is imparted to enhance safety and security of  girls  inside  and  outside  of  the  school  and  to  inculcate  confidence  amongst  girls  to  deal  with  any emergency situation. Girl students of classes IX and X of government and government aided schools are covered under the intervention.

The National Curriculum Framework (NCF), 2005 also focuses on participation of all children in free play, formal, and informal games, yoga and sports activities as essential for their physical and psychosocial development. Whereas all students must be involved in Health & Physical Education activities, those who choose to excel in games and sports need to be provided adequate opportunity. NCF also focuses on the possibility of utilization of school space at the block level for special sports programme both before school  hours  and  after  school  hours  to  enable  children  with  special  talent  for  sports  to  come  there  for special training during vacation period.

Department  of  Sports,  Ministry  of  Youth  Affair  and  Sports,  is  implementing  sports  promotional schemes across the country to identify talented sportspersons. Their schemes are gender neutral. However, some  schemes  have  women  component,  which  include  Rajiv  Gandhi  Khel  Abhiyan  (RGKA)  which provides for financial assistance to States/UTs for conducting women sports competitions.

Department  of  Sports  launched  the  revamped  Khelo  India  scheme  in  October,  2017  with  twelve components  which, inter-alia ,  includes  a  dedicated  vertical  'Sports  for  Women',  which  provides  for financial assistance for holding sports competitions for women.

Besides,  Department  of  Sports,  through  its  autonomous  body,  Sports  Authority  of  India  (SAI)  is implementing  various  sports  promotional  schemes  across  the  country  to  identify  talented  sportspersons including female sportspersons in the age  group  of 8-25  years and nurture them to excel at national and international competitions

Sports  Authority  of  India  has  established  12  Regional  Centres  and  presently,  14143  talented sportspersons (9843 Boys & 4300 Girls) are undergoing training being trained under SAI Schemes in 27 sports  disciplines  on  Residential  and  Non-Residential  basis  in  281  SAI  sports  centres.  To  pay  special emphasis for promotion of sports among the women sportspersons, SAI has established three SAI Training Centre & one Special Area Games (SAG) Centre exclusively for women.

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The  Department  of  School  Education  and  Literacy  has  launched  the  Samagra  Shiksha  -  an  Integrated Scheme for School Education as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme with effect from the year 2018-19. This programme subsumes the three erstwhile Centrally Sponsored Schemes of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya  Madhyamik  Shiksha  Abhiyan  (RMSA)  and  Teacher  Education  (TE).  It  is  an  overarching programme  for  the  school  education  sector  extending  from  pre-school  to  class  XII  and  aims  to  ensure inclusive  and  equitable  quality  education  at  all  levels  of  school  education.  It  envisages  the  'school'  as  a continuum from pre-school, primary, upper primary, secondary to senior secondary levels.

Under this scheme financial supports are providing to States/UTs irrespective of area and gender for encouragement of Sports, Physical activities, Yoga, arts & crafts, co-curricular activities etc. For meeting the expenditure on procuring sports equipments for indoor and outdoor, Sports grants upto Rs.5,000/- for primary, upto Rs. 10,000/- for upper primary and upto Rs.25,000/- for secondary and senior secondary schools  are  admissible.  The  Scheme  also  provides  annual  school  composite  grant  for  all  Government Schools for  the  replacement  of  non-functional  school    equipment  and  for  incurring  other  recurring  costs such as consumables for play materials, sports equipment, laboratories, electricity charges, internet, water,

teaching aids etc. The amount of composite school grant varies from Rs. 25,000 to Rs. 1,00,000 per annum per School depending upon the number of students in the school.

The  National  Curriculum  Framework,  2005  has  already  realized  the  importance  of  this  area  and recommended  Health  and  Physical  education  as  a  compulsory  subject  area  upto  secondary  stage  for  all children.  Age  appropriate  activities  related  to  Health,  Physical  Education  and  Yoga  are  included  in  the syllabi  of  Health  and  Physical  Education  developed  by  NCERT.  For  the  schools  affiliated  to  the  Central Board  of  Secondary  Education  (CBSE),  the  evaluation  of  Health  and  Physical  Education  is  already mandatory  in  classes  IX  to  XII.  The  performance  in  this  area  is  assessed  internally  by  the  schools  and reflected in the certificate issued by CBSE.

In addition, the Ministry of Youth Affair and Sports, Department of Sports have launched revamped khelo India Scheme to be the basic platform for talent spotting and providing development pathways for gifted  and  talented  School  children  to  achieve  excellence.  The  first  Khelo  India  National  School  Games have been held in New Delhi from 31 st January to 7 th February, 2018.

A National Sports Talent Search Portal (NSTSP) has been launched by the Sports Authority of India (SAI), where players, both boys and girls belonging to various sports disciplines can register themselves and upload their performance/achievements in different sports events through an online application process.

The  SAI  has  been  implementing  a  number  of  sports  promotional  schemes  across  the  country  to identify talented sports persons in the age group 8-25 years. The participation of number of girls trainees under SAI Scheme have increased from 3530 (2015-16) to 4031 (2016-17) to 4426 (2017-18).

In order to promote Sports for girls students, the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan takes various steps inter alia:

1. Allows the girls students to participate in Subroto Cup International Football Tournament.
2.  Gives cash awards to the winner of KVS National level/ SGFI/ National level and International Level achievers in sports and games.
3.  Gives  concession  for  admission  into  class  XI  for  those  who  have  participated  in  games  and  sports  at various levels.
4. Participate in World School Championship in Football, Swimming and Taekwoqdo.
5. Gives admission into various classes over and· above the class strength to the meritorious sports children including girls who have secured I, II & Ill position in SGFI/ CBSE/ National/ State level games organized by the Government.