NEP 2020: AN OVERVIEW ON POLICY AND PROVISIONS FOR PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS

Education has been acknowledged as one of the potential instrument of social change and important means of bringing about national development. Education can no longer be considered merely a vast as of mental acrobatics but has to help in developing an individual who is physically, mentally sound .emotionally balanced and socially adjusted to all. “Soul without body, mind without matter and education without movement are meaningless concept.” Every human being has a fundamental right of access to education as well as physical education and sport that's why physical education is the most democratic subject. Two years before CBSE has taken decision of experimental, experiential learning with integration of physical education. Physical education should be integral part of education system for holistic development of child. Physical education can provide the right direction and necessary action to improve the health of people in every community, society, nation and even the world. Vision of NEP2020 is directly concerns with nation's sustainability into an equitable bivariate knowledge of society. The new education policy is bringing drastic change in physical education and sports by eliminating the difference or gap between curricular and extra-curricular activities by giving equal weightage other subjects like science and English. Along with emotional, educational development physical and mental development is very necessary for overall development of child. Physical education is an activity-based approach that focuses on learning by doing. Activity is the link between education and physical education which emphasize great focus on all –round development of child. How physical education helps to make education equitable, Qualitable the concept sound mind and sound body is successful when we integrate physical education in main curriculum and in teaching learning process for mental, emotional and physical development of child. Nowadays our country moving towards sporting nation we all observed Olympic and Para-Olympic performances which motivates young talents of our country