[ Khelo India App ] First sporting ecosystem in India

   The importance of sports and fitness in one’s life is invaluable. Playing sports inculcates team spirit, develops strategic & analytical thinking, leadership skills, goal setting and risk taking. A fit and healthy individual leads to an equally healthy society and strong nation.

 The Khelo India App is a first-of-its-kind sports application, developed by the
Sports Authority of India that brings under one umbrella three significant features
that together can help to create more awareness about sports and fitness
among the masses in general and youngsters in particular.

   Developed as part of the Khelo India Scheme, which is the largest sporting talent
identification and nurturing platform in the country, the application aims to
further the Prime Minister’s vision to develop the sporting ecosystem in India
and turn it into a global sporting superpower in the years to come.
The application has three unique features that will make it convenient for
youngsters to take up sport and also help to identify potential champions among
children, across the country. The three sections are as follows:

1. How to play: In this section, the user gets information about the basic rules
and regulations of 18 sports disciplines. It is a beginner’s guide to what the
game is about, equipments needed to play it, rules to follow while playing the
game and scoring parameters. Keeping in mind the young demography of users,
the information has been given through interesting info graphics and animation
videos.

2. Where to play: This section includes an exhaustive repository of data of
sporting facilities across the country where an interested youngster can pursue
a sport, in his or her hometown. The list includes facilities, supported facilities and privatefacilities. The App contains details like address, phone numbers, location and also the
sporting facilities available at the venue. The APP has the provisions of adding
to this list of available sports facilities across the country on an ongoing basis,
and going forward will, it will become the largest repository of play
field information.

3. Get fit: Fitness assessment of children is the most dynamic feature of the
APP which will help to map the basic fitness levels of kids starting as early as 5
years for all school going children in India. The Fitness section has 8 tests that
can be used to ascertain not just the level of fitness of a child, but can also
determine which sporting discipline a child can excel in. The data of the fitness
tests conducted by Physical Education Teachers of schools will be fed into the
27/02/2019 PM launches Khelo India Mobile App

App and used to identify possible champions from across the country.
Further, the fitness section has two verticals:

1. For Parents: This will enable every parent or household to map the fitness
level of their children.

2. For Schools: India has more than 1.5 million schools and 30 crore schoolgoing
children and its very critical to manage and map the fitness levels of
school-going children in India.

Developed both in Hindi and English, the application once downloaded can be
used even when the parent or teacher does not have connectivity to the Internet.
This will ensure that even those children who live and study in villages, and who
may not have constant access to the internet can use this application.

Reference link Khelo India
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