India is a country of more than 1 billion people, although, we hardly win any medals at Olympics games, and rarely win a gold medals, apart from cricket, most sports are largely neglected in our country, sports like football, hockey, tennis, and athletics are not given adequate importance. The government does not provide any funds for these sports and does nothing to encourage in these fields.
In India, sports other than cricket are not considered as a serious career. Today a young school going boy who is exceptionally good at football and has great enthusiasm for sport, is still discouraged by his parents, teachers from playing football for a living. This is because, they think that football is not a lucrative career option, as they that players don’t earn that much money. So, this is reason why a child is forced to give up what he loves and to focus on his education instead.
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There are many talented youngsters in our country who have the potential to excel at international level. A 20 year old girl from Punjab Monika Batra won junior title in world table tennis championship. She also won the gold medal in Asian games 2018 by beating world’s 2nd best player of Japan. If we cheer for her like we do for our cricketers, then she would surely be motivated to perform better.
Consider football of which I am a big fan and there are many other like me. But I still dream of the day when India will be participating in the football world cup and I would be cheering for India, instead of just watching Brazil, Argentina, etc at world cup finals.
India is a country with great sporting tradition, there were days when we were world champions in Hockey. We won the Cricket world cup in 1983, and athletes like PT Usha and Milka Singh won medals at Olympics. I sincerely believe that with some efforts and hard work, the glory days will return. Now important thing is that how to overcome this problem? I believe gov should bring development in sports with innovative plans. In sept 2017, the union cabinet approved the Khelo India program at cost of rs 1756 cr. It aims that mainstreaming sport as a tool for individual development, community development, economic and national development.
Other than this, the system is providing financial assistance to NSE’s for supporting specially girls/women training and also participation at national and international level.
This will make us proud to be Indians, we will be inclined to support and cheer for our youngsters representing India in various International competition.
In conclusion, I would like to say that there is a tremendous untapped potential for growth of sports in our country and I hope one day India will become a great sporting nation and achieve high heights.
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