APPENDIX `J' MEMORANDUM ON ITEM 12 : INTEGRATED PROGRAMME OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION
The Central Advisory Board of Education at its 30th meeting held in May last year had inter alia welcomed the Integrated Programme of National Discipline Scheme and Physical Education and recommended that inservice training of teachers for this programme should be carried out expeditiously.
The Integrated Programme referred to by the Board has been subsequently revised by a committee of experts including repre- sentatives from the Ministries of Defence and Education, in the light of recommendations made by the Kunzru Committee in this regard. This programme now also contains the best features of the existing National Discipline Scheme, the Auxiliary Cadet Corps and the existing Physical Education Programme.
The Committee referred to above was set up by this Ministry in consultation with the Ministry of Defence to finalise the syllabus of this Integrated Programme in the light of the Kunzru Committee recommendations and to recommend working arrangements for its implementation. This committee has also made certain important recommendations for the uniform introduction of the revised Integrated Programme throughout the country. Some of these are as under:
(1) The Integrated Programme should be called the "National Programme of Physical Education."
(2) From 1st April, 1965, A.C.C., N.D.S. and the existing programme of Physical Education should cease to exist and these should be replaced by the "National Programme of Physical Education".
(3) All the States should be requested to unreservedly accept that the National Programme of Physical Education would be the only programme of multipurpose physical education at the school stage.
(4) All teachers under the National Programme of Physical Education should belong to the State cadre in case of schools run by Government and in the case of privately-run institutions, such teachers should be under the school Managing Committees like other subject teachers.
(5) The functions of the Central Government for the effective implementation of this massive National Programme throughout the country would include guidance, coordination, training and other activities which would ensure a uniform application of the programme. For this purpose,
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a central organisation more or less on the lines of the N.C.C. should be set up. The existing administrative and supervisory staff employed by the N.D.S. Directorate will form the nucleus of this organisation. Supervisory staff in the field of Physical Education employed by the States at present should have the option to come over to the Central Organisation and their salaries and status should be protected.
(6) The National Programme should cover all students in schools including those under N.C.C. (Junior) but where it is not possible in the early stages to cover all the students in a High/Higher Secondary School, the last one or two classes might be left out from coverage of the programme for sometime. The N.C.C. (Junior) will however continue to stay as a co-curricular activity in the schools.
(7) The Government of India should render financial assistance to States as necessary, to enlarge their State cadre of Instructors or increase the number of teachers in non-government academic institutions under the National Pro- gramme, including the absorption of N.D.S. Instructors and payment of honorarium to A.C.C. and Physical Education Teachers etc.
(8) All further recruitments to the State Cadre of Instructors will be made by the States. The educational qualifications, Physical standards etc. of the Physical Education teachers shall be laid down from time to time by general rules made by the State Government in consultation with the Central Government. The assistance of Central Regional Officers should however be made available to the States for selecting suitable teachers.
(9) The Training Programme of the existing Physical Education training institutions in the States which are wholly or partly financed or controlled by the State Government shall be immediately or as early as possible, reoriented to the teacher needs of the National Programme.
(10) During 1964-65 the Central Directorate should select at random oe district in each State for trying the syllabus approved by the Committee. These pilot projects will however be undertaken, without any prejudice to the introduction of the National Programme of Physical Education, with effect from 1st April 1965.
The above suggestions are under consideration of Government. The Central Advisory Board of Education may please see for information.