NEW DELHI: In a bid to promote sports in the country, Union Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Monday said that a games period will be made mandatory in schools after reducing the syllabus by 50% by next year.
“We have come to a stage where sports is not a part of education, it is education. The ministry of education is ensuring that the syllabus in schools by 2019 is reduced by 50% and there will be a sports period on a regular basis,” PTI quotes Rathore as having said.
Rathore said the ministry is planning several things to make sports more relevant.