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| In the name of School Olympics | | | Satwant Singh Rissam
Chain Singh, a 27 years old young man, from Chanser, a small village in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir participated in Rio Olympics 2016. It took J&K more than 6 decades to see some one play in Olympics. Dont start presuming about contribution of any sports association from J&K or J&K Sports Council or any government department to Chain Singh's this achievement. He is serving in Indian Army and credit for this achievement, goes to Indian Army only.
This fact may refresh memories of many as by now they must have forgotten him. Many in our state were in jovial mood when Rio Olympics were going on but now as games are over so is our enthusiaism. Sports in J&K for many is an alien word.There must be hardly any instance where you could have noticed parents promoting their children to play sports in our state.For every parent in J&K priority is, education of their children and all of them want their children to be an engineer, doctor or some other professional degree holder. None of them ever desire their children to be a gold,silver or bronze medalist. But yes, they dont mind these shiny metals at home but not at cost of studies.They cannot be blamed purely for it as there is no skilled sports atmosphere in the state.Parents at all times see children of their relatives as well as neighbours being pushed in studies but not in sports.Over past many years this approach of our state has made us stand far behind to states like Punjab and Haryana.
Few days back sports fever was reignited by District Administration Jammu as we saw inter-school sports event held under the name of 'School Olympics'. It was a 9 day long event in which events of Kabaddi, Wrestling, Football, Hockey, Volleyball Basketball, Badminton, Table Tennis, Athletics and Marathon were held. It is said that more than 100 schools and 3500 students from government as well as private schools took part in it. The beauty of this event was that it was first of its kind event which was organised in our state.Basically, it was an inter school sports event but was held in a very professional manner and appeared as a step towards inculcating sports culture in children of Jammu. I too got a chance to witness this extraordinary event. The intensity of the event can be judged with fact that around one hundred medals were distributed on closing ceremony of 'School Olympics'. This event though had some unhappy moments also as some officials and participants complained about the refreshments served. I was informed by technical staff on duty their that as far refreshments were concerned, they were initially promised some thing better. However, I feel this alteration can be understood as the Jammu administration has taken help of many sponsors to conduct this event. In addition to it, some matter pertaining to non availability of toilet facilities at venues was also discussed in sports circle of Jammu. However, such things can be overlooked but shouldnot be ignored and be worked over for future.
There must be many people who by now must be trying to add this event in historical pages of J&K. No doubnt it deserves a place in history but it has left some unanswered questions too. Though such initiative held in the name of 'School Olympics' was aimed at providing an opportunity to children in field of sports. But I feel that no impact can be made unless there is infrastructure for the players in state to practice after such events. The winner will become a winner just of such single event and he or she cannot be a winner in life. The first requirement is to work over the infrastructure. All those children who excelled at this event cannot be nurtured further in such deficient atmosphere. If we look into present state of affairs then we can see that we don't have many stadiums in Jammu and not even have large number of multi purpose indoor sports halls. Till today we have got many packages for the development of sports infrastructure in J&K but efforts were made to save this money in banks then spending it on the required infrastructure. We don't have any kind of sports calendar for organising different sports event in the state. Events like 'School Olympics' definitely give some mental happiness and various 'personal-liasion' building sessions also. On the other hand, we need honesty as final destination for sportsmen in J&K is definitely not such events as they need many bigger landmarks which lie far off in their thoughts |
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