The ceremony will highlight some wonderful and well-known combinations of coaches and athletes.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore(Photo: Twitter)
The legendary tradition of ‘teacher-and-student’, referred to as the “Guru-Shishya Parampara” will be celebrated in grand style at the opening ceremony of the inaugural Khelo India School Games (KISG) at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium, New Delhi on 31 January.
Depictions of numerous coach-athlete combinations in sports ranging from archery to wrestling and from across the country will be part of the spectacle.
The ceremony will highlight some wonderful and well-known combinations of coaches and athletes from the disciplines that form a part of the Khelo India School Games (KISG) programme.
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This will ensure that the coaches, who teach basics to their students and help them become elite athletes are given their due recognition. According to sports minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was very keen that society honours the coaches who work tirelessly to ensure India a place in the sporting firmament.
“We have some wonderful examples of coaches playing a big role in the rise and success of Indian sportspersons and it will be great to bring the tradition back into focus,” he said.
This combination of coaches and athletes who will represent the ‘Guru-Shishya Parampara’ in the Opening Ceremony is bound to inspire more such tales across the country as it bids to revamp the structure in such a way that talented young athletes are given a massive platform to perform and are then nurtured into champions of the future.
This is in keeping with the Government’s stated policy to revamp the incentives scheme to encompass all coaches who have been instrumental in an athlete’s journey from the early days through the development stage to international acclaim. While most of the ‘Gurus’ have numerous ‘Shishyas’ in their tutelage, there always are some who excel and win laurels at the highest levels.
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