60 minutes of exercise may soon be must for school kids
School
students might have to undertake mandatory physical activities for an hour
every day if the Union human resource development ministry accepts the
recommendation of a group comprising government officials and activists.
Inclusion
of 60-minute mandatory physical activities and value education in schools were
among the recommendations put forth during a workshop organised by the HRD
ministry on November 6-7.
The
two-day ‘Chintan Shivir’ witnessed separate groups comprising civil society
activists and officials of the state governments and Centre hold deliberations
on themes of digital education, life skill education, experimental learning,
physical education and value education.
Creation
of a network of model schools that could impart value education was also
proposed during the workshop. “Physical education should be an integral part of
overall education and it has been proposed that it should be viewed as a core
part of school education just like academics,” said a senior ministry official.
The
ministry is reviewing the recommendations and will decide the road map for
their implementation, the ministry official added.
The
group that held the discussions on physical education was headed by Kendriya
Vidyalaya commissioner Santosh Kumar Mall. It also recommended that students’
fitness levels should be assessed and a national physical education development
fund under the HRD ministry should be established.
Source | Hindustan Times | 16th November 2017
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