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National Sports Policy 2025
ASPIRATIONS TO BECOME A
GLOBAL SPORTS
SUPERPOWER
Sports is playing a dominant role India aims to become a great sports
in the all-round development superpower. Amid this backdrop, the
of India. The progress of sports
is directly linked to a nation’s sports policy approved by the Union
growing credibility. Today, sports Cabinet and National Sports Day
is an important part of India’s on 29 August, let us know how
development journey. Over
the last 11 years, the central “Khelego-Kudoghe Banoge Lajawab”
government has overhauled has become the new mantra of the
the field of sports through sports talents of the new India…
transformative initiatives and
policies, raising the confidence
of the youth as an invaluable he ambition of the youth in sports
asset for them. Who can stop is soaring high, and they are ready
India from becoming a global to take on tough challenges. Be
it the Tokyo or Paris Olympics,
superpower when youth in India’s Commonwealth Games, Asian
demography account for 65 Games, or other world-class sports
percent of its population below Tcompetitions, this statement holds
the age of 35? With this view true for the players who bring pride to India. Who
recently unveiled National Sports would have thought that javelin champion Neeraj
Chopra would create history by winning a gold
Policy- 2025 has become not medal in the Olympics.
just a policy document, but the Neeraj was born on 24 December 1997 in a farmer
embodiment of India’s ambition… family to Satish and Saroj Devi of Khandra village in
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