EVALUATION OF STATUS OF SCHOOLS REGARDING INCLUSION OF SPORTS AS REGULAR SUBJECT IN CURRICULUM: A SURVEY

After every international sports competition players of our country return back bare hand or comes with medals much less in number as expected by us, as a result we all citizens of country feel very disappointed. It is the media who creates hype before games evoke the expectation level of country and after failure start criticising them. Everybody in this country start suggesting that how Indian players can earn more medals in next tournament. Same story was repeated after the end of XVII Inchion Asian games ? 2014. One of the most popular bollywood actor was found advocating for idea of including sports as subject at school level and a large number of educationists discussing pros and cons of this idea on different news channels.By conducting this survey researcher tried to find out the real status of secondary and higher secondary schools in regards to inclusion of sports as subject. Unfortunately schools do not have minimum infrastructure to teach sports. Schools situated in urban areas do not have playgrounds and they cannot arrange it due to sky steep rates of land and in rural areas they have enough space for developing playground but nothing else except land, it means no resources. In this research paper researcher has tried to focus on the issues of concerns to be resolved before including sports as subject in curriculum. Few suggestions have also been made for creating a favourable environment for sports in country