The Sports activities Ministry has launched a ‘Particular Capability Constructing Course’ geared toward serving to elite athletes to change into coaches, referees, and technical officers.
The choice was taken protecting in thoughts the dearth of coaches within the nation on the elite degree.
Speaking concerning the ‘Particular Capability Constructing Course’, sports activities minister Mansukh Mandaviya mentioned, “I see an absence of elite Indian coaches. This course will allow the previous Indian sportspersons who’re doing clerical jobs and different workplace jobs on the PSUs and ministries. We are able to carry all these sports activities individuals as not solely coaches but additionally as referees and technical officers. All of those guys can be skilled by specialists from the NIS, Patiala.”
Former All England champion and famend badminton coach Pullela Gopichand, in a current interview to The Indian Categorical, had highlighted the dearth of respect on the office for former athletes who’ve sports activities quota jobs and mentioned serving to them upskill was the necessity of the hour. “Training and sport must go collectively, and skilling and exit alternatives for athletes are crucial to equip them for all times forward…we’re not becoming into company roles and workplace jobs with out skilling. I do know so many vivid high degree gamers however it’s not straightforward…,” Gopichand had mentioned.
The course has been designed and developed for present and former elite sports activities individuals who’re presently employed and serving in varied central authorities or autonomous organizations below central authorities or central public sector undertakings.
Any athlete who has gained a medal or participated in multi-sporting occasions like Olympics, Asian Video games, and Commonwealth Video games can be eligible for the course. Aside from these, Nationwide Video games medalists, nationwide champions and medalists of Youth Olympics and World Championships will even be eligible for the course.
The course will comprise 4 certification ranges; basis, pre-intermediate, intermediate and superior certificates. Every degree will be accomplished inside two years and has a hybrid model and an internet model. Every certification degree consists of 10 credit for a complete of 40.
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The ‘Particular Capability Constructing Course’ will cowl trendy teaching, sports activities science, yogasana and management with the goal to ‘improve skilled abilities’ The individuals could have overseas publicity excursions to study from worldwide specialists.
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