Vocational Training Program in Physical Education & Sports
Vocational Training Program in Physical Education & Sports
Authors : Mukul Chowdhary & Jyoti Majmudar
If you are good in studies (which is mostly limited to your cognitive abilities), you will be successful. If you play, you will spoil your life. This saying in India reverberates the popular sentiment which pushes children early on to make choices between academics and sports. As a result, the students who have physical skills and abilities ignore their academics and the ones who have cognitive abilities ignore their physical activity. Education is unbalanced and cognitive abilities get more weightage than physical skills. Most students who do not do well in education get left out of it and have nowhere to go. The socio-economic conditions of this class of students are largely very poor.
Economic growth, on the one hand, has created opportunities of employment for a large section of youth but on the other, has also had its toll on the health and well-being of the population in general. Fast paced, stressful and sedentary lifestyle has resulted in new diseases unheard of in our parent’s generation – like juvenile diabetes, obesity, cardiac issues etc. There is a danger that people of today’s generation may have a shorter lifespan than the previous one.
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