Youth Fitness & Sports:
TEN OBJECTIVES OF MINISTRY OF SPORT

(a). To integrate sports and academic education in order to strengthen the basis of sports; to establish Integrated School for Sports and Education in the Institute of Sports and Physical Education and to promote Mass Sport activities.

(b) To select athletes correctly and effectiely.

(c) To train atheltes with deeloped and advenced techniques.

(d) To provide sports equipments fully.

(e) To maintain Stadiums and Gymnasiums effectively and to establish new Stadiums and Gymnasiums.

(f) To establish more Sports Training Centres.

(g) To expand sports research works more widely and more effectively.

(h) To organize local sports competitions and sports meets in order to get more and take part in the International Sports Competitions.

(i) To organize private enterprises, organizations , departmental personnels to backup the sports and to organize soprts tans to cheer in a good spirit.

(j) To activate the future life-style of the aged sportsmen.

Attitude placed towards youths

7. Youths of today are future leaders of tomorrow and as such they are bound to shoulde the responsibilities of the State in the future. In other words they can be regarded as a precious stone for the country. If we want to visualize the future of a particular country, we can clearly perceive just by studying “ the youths of today”.

The conditions of youths of today

8. The majority of youths throuht out the world today, whether in developed country, developing country or unerdeveloped, are noded to be faced with huge problems and that the respective countries are filled with anxieties regareding youths. It is clearly seen that due to various reasons, the problems arising from AIDS, narcotic durgs addiction, and crimes committed are on the increase day by day.

Constructive method

9. For youths to become persons of good character, possess good social spirit, strong and healthy persons and god citizens, the most constructive and the only mehod found is to get them interested in sports. Hence, it is vividly seen that the International Olympic Committee and the respective National Olympic Committees are laying down projects for youths to get interested in sports and implementing them.

Attitude towards sports

10. Sports activities help develop physical strength and fitness, control, movement vigour and stamina as spiritual attributes such as the will to compete fairly and win, and the will to train systematically in a disciplinary manner.

11. It may also be observed that the youths active in sports can become endowed with the five strength, namely, physical, intellectual, moral, social and economic and become strong in physique and spirit in having good discipline.

12. That is why, for national fitness and for high national pride, the State Peace and Development Council has been promoting a national movement to raise hte standard of sports in the country to be high in keeping with national pride and integrity.