Critical evaluation of policies and programmes of physical education and sports in the schools of Jammu and Kashmir

Abstract

Schools are the nurseries of the society where the future citizens are prepared for owning the responsibility to take the nation to its greater heights. School education is therefore considered the foundation on which the integrated personality of a child is developed from the grass root level. Numerous policies and programmes have been introduced by the Central and State Governments for the upliftment of the standard of the school education including the physical education and sports both for the Government and non- Government institutions in the country. Since the education is the subject that comes under the jurisdiction of State Government, vividness has been observed in the implementation of these policies and programmes. It has also been felt that wilful efforts sometimes have not been made by the educational institutions themselves towards the desired implementation of these policies and programmes. Besides that these policies and programmes are not time to time evaluated by any agency for getting proper feedback. The researcher therefore has made a sincere attempt to critically evaluate the policies and programmes pertained to physical education and sports in the schools of Jammu and Kashmir. Education process aims at the holistic development of the personality of an individual in order to ensure his/her congruence with social milieu. Any learning when imparted through physical activity is termed as physical education and similarly it is also targeted at the all-round development of personality of an individual through games and sports. Much emphasis has been laid by the Government for ensuring best possible measures to educate its children folk but still remains some of the Lucanes and short-comings due to one reason or the other.Physical education and sport, although closely linked, are not synonymous. Sport is formalised physical activity involving competition or challenges against oneself, others or the environment, with an emphasis on winning.