CHAPTER XI PHYSICAL EDUCATION, GAMES, SPORTS AND YOUTH WELFARE
A. PHYSICAL EDUCATION 1. Physical Education: During the year 1967-68, the Ministry of Education continued the consolidation and extension of the programmes of physical education, games and sports and youth welfare initiated during the previous years.
2. Lakshmibai College of Physical Education, Gwalior: The College continued to progressively improve its facilities for the students. During the year, 73 students were admitted to the 3-year degree course and 11 students to the 2-year postgraduate course in physical education.
3. National Physical Efficiency Drive: The, National Physical Efficiency Drive for 1967-68 was organised all over the country from November, 1967 to January, 1968. As against over 9 lakh participants in the 1966-67 Drive, the participation target of 15 lakh has been laid down for the 1967-68 Drive. The results of the Drive are still awaited from some of the States,
3.1. The Seventh All-India Competition for National Awards in Physical Efficiency was organised at the Lakshmibai College of Physical Education, Gwalior. 46 competitors, including 11 women, participated in the Competition. 15 persons, including 5 women, won the National Awards in Physical Efficiency.
4. Promotion of Yoga: Under this scheme, financial assistance is extended to the Yogic institutions of all-India character for promotion of research and/or teacher training programmes. During the year under review, grants to these institutions are likely to amount to Rs. 2 lakh.
5. Assistance to the Private Physical Education Training Institutions: The scheme provides for the grant of financial assistance of non-recurring nature to the private physical education training institutions for gymnasia, hostels, administrative blocks, play-grounds, library books, equipment, etc. During the, year, financial assistance was continued to be given for the projects sanctioned up to the Third Five Year Plan. Besides fresh proposals for financial assistance have also been received from new institutions. Grants amounting to Rs. 1.5 lakh have been sanctioned to the new institutions.
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5.1 The pattern of central assistance will continue to be the same as operative during the third Five Year Plan. The total expenditure on this account during the year is estimated at Rs. 2.25 lakh.
6. National Fitness Corps: The National Fitness Corps provides an integrated programme of physical education based on the recommendations of the Kunzru Committee. It is implemented through the National Fitness Corps Directorate which controls a little over 7,000 National Discipline Instructors distributed to schools all over the country. In addition, the Directorate also provides in-service reorientation courses to the existing physical education teachers so as to bring the course of physical education in the States on the pattern envisaged by the National Fitness Corps Directorate. The National Fitness Corps Directorate also conducts a regular 9-month diploma/certificate course for teacher trainees deputed by the States at the two Central training institutes set up at Sariska and Barwaha.
B. SPORTS AND GAMES 7. All-India Council of Sports: The All-India Council of Sports, an advisory body set up to advise the Government of India in all matters relating to the development of games and sports in the country, held five meetings during the period under report. At these meetings the Council made recommendations on various policy matters and on proposals received from sports federations/associations for grants in-aid for visits of Indian teams abroad and for inviting foreign team's to India.
7.1. The All-India Council of Sports was reconstituted for a period of one year from October 18, 1967 with General K. M. Cariappa as its Chairman.
8. Award of Abul Kalam Azad Trophy: The Abul Kalam Azad Trophy for the year 1965-66 was won by the Panjab University from which participated the largest number of students in the national and international sports events. For the year 1966-67, the trophy went to the Kurukshetra University.
9. Arjuna Awards: The President gave away Arjuna Awards to 13 outstanding sportsmen of the year 1966 at a special ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhawan on the 18th December, 1967.
10. Grants to National Sports Federations: During the period under report, grants totalling to about Rs. 6,00,000 were paid up to February, 1968 to National Sports Federations for participation in international events, visits of foreign teams to our country, meeting the expenditure on the salaries of paid Assistant
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Secretaries, holding of coaching Camps, purchase of sports equipment and for the implementation of sports items-included cultural agreements.
11. Grants to State Sports Councils: Grants totalling to about Rs. 70,000 were paid up to February, 1968 to St-ate Sports Councils for holding coaching camps and for the purchase of equipment.
12. Continents Sent Abroad: Permission was accorded for sending abroad national teams for participation in various events. Details are as follows :
(1) A 2-member badminton team for participation in the (a) All-England Badminton Championship, (b) Canadian Centennial Tournament, (c) Denmark International Tournament, and (d) International Championship of France, during the period from 7th March to 2nd April, 1967.
(2) A 19-member schools boys cricket team to UK during the period July to August, 1967.
(3) A 20-member athletic national team to Ceylon for participation in the Ceylon Amateur Athletic Association Championship Meet held during April, 1967.
(4) A table tennis team of 3 players accompanied by a Manager-cum-delegate, for participation in the 29th World Table Tennis Championship held at Stockholm (Sweden) during April 1967.
(5) A senior cricket team to tour UK and East Africa during the period April to August 1967.
(6) A tennis team to play Davis Cup ties abroad during 1967.
(7) A senior hockey team to Europe for participation in the Madrid Hockey Festival during the period April to June 1967.
(8) Senior and junior tennis teams to UK and Europe for participation in the Wimbledon and other Inter- national tournaments during May to August 1967.
(9) A 4-member Indian Golf team for participation in the Asian Amateur Golf Team Championship held in Taiwan, during May, 1967.
(10) A basketball team for participation in the 4th Asian Basketball Championships held in Seoul (South Korea) in September-October, 1967.
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(11) A 4-member squash team for participation in the First International Squash Rackets Championship held in Sydney (Australia) during August, 1967.
(12) A 7-member golf team for participation in the Ceylon Amateur Golf Championships held in Colombo during July, 1967.
(13) A 2-member Indian shooting team to Tokyo during July 1967 for participation in the first Asian Shooting Competition.
(14) A 4-member table tennis team accompanied by a Manager-cum-delegate, to visit Singapore in August 1967 for participation in the Asian Table Tennis Championships there and on way back to visit Cambodia to play a few friendly matches there.
(15) One shooter, Maharaja Karni Singh, for participation in the World Shooting Championship held in Bologna (Italy) during September, 1967.
(16) A 2-member badminton team for participation in the Singapore Open International Badminton Championship held in Singapore during October, 1967.
(17) A senior hockey team of 16 players and 2 officials to London for participation in the Pre-Olympic Hockey Tournament held in October, 1967.
(18) Mr. M. Ferreira to Ceylon for participation in the World Billiards Championship at Colombo during November, 1967.
(19) A senior cricket team to tour Australia and New Zealand from November 1967 to March, 1968.
(20) A 4-member junior tennis team to visit Kaula Lumpur (Malayasia) for participation in the Asian Championships for Juniors held there during October, 1967.
(21) A 16-member football team to participate in the Asian Cup Western Region 11 Football Tournament held in Rangoon (Burma) during 12th to 29th November, 1967.
(22) A team of 23 swimmers and 2 officials to Colombo (Ceylon) for participation in the Indo-Ceylon Aquatic Meet held there from 14th to 15th November, 1967.
(23) A two-member delegation to Moscow on the 30th July, 1967 at the invitation of the USSR Government to witness Spartikiad.
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(24) A 2-member billiards team to East Africa to play a number of exhibition matches in Nairobi, Kampala and Dara-es-Salaam during February-March 1968.
(25) A 6-member badminton team to East Africa to tour kenya and Uganda and participate in the Kenya-Uganda International Badminton Tournament in Nairobi, during February-March 1968.
(13) Contingents Received :
(1) The Amateur Athletic Federation of India was permitted to invite a 35-member athletic team of Ceylonese Track and Field Club, Colombo, to participate in the 18th Annual C. Prasannakumar Memorial Athletic Meet, held at Bangalore during May, 1967.
(2) The Basketaball Federation of India was permitted to invite the Ceylon Men and Women Basketaball teams for participation in the All-India Gold Cup Basketaball Tournament at Bhilwara (Rajasthan) during June, 1967.
(3) The Schools Games Federation of India has been permitted, with necessary financial assistance, to invite school teams from various neighbouring Asian countries for participation in the Invitation International Schools Games Meet proposed to be held in India during November, 1968.
(4) The Inter-University Board of India and Ceylon was granted permission with necessary financial assistance to receive the West German Universites team on its way back from Tokyo after participation in the World University sports (University) 1967, for sports competitions between the Indian players and the visiting team, held in New Delhi during September, 1967.
(5) The Badminton Association of India was permitted to invite foreign players from various foreign countries for participation in the major badminton tournaments to be held in India during November 1967 and January 1968.
(6) The Tournament Committee of the All-India Jawaharlal Nehru Hockey Tournament was permitted to invite a Ceylon Hockey team for participation in the tournament held in India November-December, 1967.
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(7) The All-India Football Federation was permitted to invite a Soviet football team under the Indo-USSR Cultural Exchange Programme to tour India during December, 1968.
(8) The All-India Lawn Tennis Association was per- mitted to invite six foreign players for participation in various tennis tournaments to be held at different centres in the country during December 1967 to March, 1968.
(9) The Wrestling Federation of India staged the XVII World Wrestling Championship in Free, Style in New Delhi from 12 to 14th November, 1967. This is the first time that a world event of this nature was held in India.
(10) The All-India Women's Hockey Association organised the first Asian Hockey Championship at Delhi in January, 1968.
(11) A party of 300 Commonwealth students known as COMEX II visited India during August-September, 1967. The party gave performances at different centres in the country.
(12) The Indian Hockey Federation was permitted to in- vite the East German Hockey team to tour India during the period 20th to 31st January, 1968.
(13) The Board of Control for Cricket in India was per- mitted to invite the Worcestershire County Cricket team from UK to play two matches at Bombay and Madras from 19th February to 5th March, 1968, to raise funds for memorials to Col. C. K. Nayudu and Sir Frank Worrel.
(14) The Table Tennis Federation of India was permitted with grant of necessary financial assistance to invite a Japanese Table Tennis Team of 4 players and one coach, to play a number of exhibition and test matches at various centres in the country during the Period from 23rd Jan., 1968 to 21st Feb., 1968.
(15) The Indian Hockey Federation was permitted to in- vite Mr. Rene G. Frank, President, International Hockey Federation to witness the National Hockey Championship in India during February, 1968.
(16) The Amateur Athletic Federation of India was permitted to invite a 14-member ACE Athletic Club team from Ceylon, for participation in the annual
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Athletic Meet of the Tata Sports Club, Bombay,during March, 1968.
(17) The Board of Control for Cricket in India was per- mitted to invite Mr. Asif Iqbal, the Pakistan fast bowler and batsman to assist the Indian Cricket team in the exhibition match against the Worcestershire County Cricket team at Madras during the period 29th February to 3rd March, 1968.
14. Taking over of National Stadium: The National Stadium with the Swimming Pool was taken over by the Government in September 1967 from the National Sports Club of India for proper maintenance and better utilisation. A sum of Rs. 3.90 lakh was paid to the Club as compensation.
15. Mountaineering Training Camp: Financial assistance had been sanctioned to the universities of Kurukshetra, Gujarat, Sardar Patel, Jadavpur and Bombay, for organising mountaineering training camps, during the period under report.
16. Utility Stadia: The scheme of grant-in-aid to State Governments for utility stadia has been revived and a provision of Rs. 1.75 lakh has been made for it for the year 1968-69. During the period under report, grants were given for the construction of five new stadia and a few more proposals are under examination.
17. National Institute of Sports, Patiala: The Institute which was established in the year 1961 has so far trained 1,162 coaches in different games.
18. Indian Mountaineering Foundation: It is proposed to make a total grant-in-aid up to Rs. one lakh to the Indian Mountaineering Foundation during 1967-68 to render financial assistance for mountaineering expenditions.
C. YOUTH WELFARE PROGRAMMES 19. Scouting and Guiding: The object of the scheme is to help develop the character of boys and girls and make them good citizens by giving them training in scouting and guiding and thereby inculcating in them a spirit of loyalty, patrotism and thoughtfulness for others.
19.1. The Bharat Scouts and Guides which is a voluntary organisation recognised by the Government of India, promotes the entire programme of scouting and guiding. They are given assistance to cover their organisational expenditure and up to 75% of the expenditure on approved items such as organisation of training camps and participation in national and international
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jamborees and other international events. Out of a provision of Rs. 3 lakh (Plan) and Rs. 10,000 (Non-Plan) an expenditure of Rs. 72,982 (Plan) and Rs. 5,000 (Non-Plan) has already been sanctioned. Besides, the Government of India has also accorded sanctions amounting to Rs. 6,000 in favour of the Chairman, Sangam Sub-Committee, Asian Centre of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, New Delhi for meeting organisational expenses incurred by the Sangam Sub-Committee for the year ending 31st Dec., 1966 and Rs. 1,50,000 as Government's additional contribution to them for meeting the expenditure on the construction of the building at Poona.
20. Youth Welfare Boards and Committees: The aim of the scheme is to encourage universities in the country to set up Youth Welfare Boards and Committees to look after and promote the youth welfare activities among or university/college students. The purpose is to enable the students to utilise, profitably, their leisure hours, by taking part in cultural, liberary and other activities. There is a budget provision of Rs. 30,000 for this purpose in the current year.
21. Under this scheme, grants-in-aid are also given on matching basis covering 50% of the expenditure on the salaries and T.A./D.A. of the staff employed in the Boards and Committees. Up to December, 1967 a total amount of Rs. 5,429 had already been released in favour of the Registrars, S.N.D.T. Women's University and Bombay University and an amount of Rs. 24,152 is, being released in favour of the Registrars of the universities of Patna, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Panjab.
22. Youth Leadership and Dramatic Training Camps: The purpose of the scheme is to give to the teachers from universities/ colleges much needed short-term training, in the techniques of organising youth welfare activities in their universities/colleges. The scheme is implemented by the Ministry direct as well as through the universities.