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• Mizoram Football Initiative: 32 of the 41 boys trained at • Collaboration with local stakeholders and collection of
the Football Centre of Excellence in Mizoram were fees for grassroots training by the community has helped
successfully placed in di erent football academies across develop sustainable programmes.
the country, imparting a fillip to their professional football
careers. Further, a grant was given to the Mary Kom Boxing
CHALLENGES FACED
Foundation, following which the foundation’s boxers won 12
gold, 5 silver, and 3 bronze medals at three state and
national championships. • Training programmes were severely impacted due to the
second wave of Covid-19.
• Hockey: Girls from the Odisha Naval Tata Hockey High
Performance Centre Academy won silver and bronze • Underachievement of competitive targets as
medals in the Academy Sub Junior and Junior National tournaments were cancelled.
Championships, whereas the boys from the Naval Tata
Hockey Academy, Jamshedpur, won a gold medal at the
Academy Junior National Championship.

• Uttarakhand Sports Initiative: Two athletes represented
India at the World Athletics Race Walk Team Challenge
event in Oman during March 2022; also, a visually
impaired footballer from NIVH, represented India in the 3
Match Series organised in Muscat in March 2022.

GOING FORWARD

• Integration of physical literacy in education programmes
for the holistic development of children, in line with the
new Education Policy.

BEST PRACTICES

• Continuous teacher training at all levels, from physical
literacy in schools to coach education at the grassroots
and competitive levels, as well as at the Centres of
• Mizoram Badminton Initiative: Five and 10 talented
Excellence, has ensured that the quality and e ciency of
players from the Regional Development Centres were
teaching has improved over the years.
placed in the Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy
(PGBA), Hyderabad, and in the ITM Badminton Academy,
• A focus on the holistic development of children has
Raipur, respectively, with full scholarship. Five new
resulted in sports training activities also including
coaches were also appointed at PGBA.
lessons on life skills.

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