This Friday (July 29) marked the 2nd anniversary of the implementation of the National Education Policy launched via Union Home Minister Amit Shah. During an match to mark the anniversary of the 2020 policy, Shah launched a sequence of initiatives in the training and competencies improvement region to mark the occasion.
One of them was once the introduction of seventy five Bharatiya Games in faculties which include ‘gilli danda’, ‘kabbadi’, ‘posham pa’, and ‘kanche’ under the Education Ministry’s initiative titled Indian Knowledge Systems.
According to reports, quite a few games from exceptional states have been listed to be integrated in schools. In fact, a version of ‘gilli danda’ is covered which is exclusively played by means of Odisha’s Santhal tribe to which India’s President Droupadi Murmu belongs.
Talking about the initiative, Ganti S Murthy, national coordinator for IKS informed Hindustan Times, “The thinking is not simply to without a doubt promote Indian video games in schools. The actual thinking is to make sports extra inclusive at the school level. For instance, the faculties in rural areas don’t have infrastructure for famous faculty video games like basketball or badminton. Why need to we restrict their participation?”
He further explained that the reason is to introduce nearby video games which are much less resource intensive and motivate creativity.
Elaborating further, Sangeeta Goswami informed HT that many of these video games are historical and have roots in historical scriptures.
“For instance, ‘gilli danda’ is extra than 5,000 years old. It used to be additionally referred to in a verse in Mahabharata which says that Krishna, Arjun and Bhima are playing ‘gilli danda’. Many regional video games have nearly comparable policies however have special names,” she said.
Apart of this, Amit Shah also launched initiatives such as the institution of Indian Knowledge Systems-MIC programme for technological know-how demonstration, launch of Kalashala initiative in 750 schools to promote and guide local arts, partnership with Indira Gandhi Open University (IGNOU) to provide upward mobility to college students and assist them achieve greater schooling and greater livelihood opportunities- probability to join the three-year degree programme are amongst these initiatives.
