Paper: GS – II, Subject: Governance, Topic: Government Policies, Issue: Significance of National Sports Policy.
Context:
On 1 July 2025, the Union Cabinet approved the National Sports Policy 2025 (NSP 2025). It adopts a five-pillar, whole-of-ecosystem approach and aims to place sports at the frontline of national development.
Key Highlights:
From Medals to Nation-Building:
- Traditional focus: Traditional focus was on medals and international performance.
- New approach: NSP 2025 shifts to viewing sports as a nation-building tool with five pillars:
Sports as a Public Good:
- Integration: The policy calls for an ecosystem-based strategy integrating Physical literacy with education, Community engagement and high-performance pathways.
- Collaboration: It stresses on Inter-ministerial, centre-state collaboration and Public-private partnerships.
- Public participation: It promotes mass participation over elite-only focus and aims to make sports and physical activity a citizen movement.
Broader Impacts:
Economic Potential:
Challenges of sports governance:
- Poor governance of sports bodies.
- Local coach development gaps.
- Inconsistent reward/recognition.
- Doping and fraud risks.
Measures needed:
- Inter-ministerial coordination is essential.
- Data-driven performance measurement, audit, and accountability systems.
- Focus on talent identification, grassroots media coverage, and private sector engagement.
- Policy should uphold values like Integrity, Transparency and Fairness. Important to embed sporting culture in Indian society
Conclusion:
National Sports Policy (NSP) 2025 is an ambitious yet achievable vision. It could make India a global sports power. Hosting the Olympics should be seen not as a final goal, but as a milestone in a broader journey.
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