Even during winters
Sports has become a passion for the youth of the valley. Sports activities have a great scope at national and international levels. There are hundreds of sports activities that have been held in our country for centuries. Cricket has become famous and has attracted millions of fans from all corners of the world. Our nation has produced great names in the cricketing world like Sachin Tendulkar, Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar, MS Dhoni, and Virat Kohli. There are great names from other countries as well, like Imran Khan, Javed Miandad, Ricky Ponting, Viv Richards, Brian Lara, Sangakkara, etc., who are real lovers of any game and always favour those who have real and great talent. One beautiful thing is that Indian fans like the Pakistani cricketers and the Pakistani fans like the Indian cricketers; this is something charming about this sports world.
Year round activities
Government administration has taken impressive initiatives to eradicate drug menaces and engage youth in different sports activities. Today it is very unfortunate that educated youth are involved in drugs, spoiling their careers and health as well. Sports activities are the best defence against the dreadful drug menace in the country. We need to encourage our youth towards sports activities and enhance their interests towards different sports activities so that they feel energetic and become vigilant towards the drug menace.
Attracting youth towards educational goals
Education has no alternative, and education has no limits, no barriers, no enemies, and no restrictions. Education is mandatory for all. We believe education has the great potential to eradicate all types of evils from a society, and education is the weapon that can make a nation proud and produce great personalities. Today acquiring education is so easy, and anyone can get hold of great concepts through different channels like newspapers, magazines, print media, and the internet, which are great sources to learn great things.
Making sports interesting
Sports activities are very interesting. Sometimes people who are not interested, we can make them interested by giving them chance to do what they like the most. Once we are properly into it, interest settles, and we start feeling the sport. Learning things about anything induces interest among us and makes us dwell upon that. Sports activities should be mandatory at the school level; students should be given grades for their performance. Like maintaining discipline, energy, leadership, etc.
Winters and the sports facilities
Kashmir is known for harsh winters. The accumulation of snow records up to 6 ft in higher reaches; there are limited sports activities held during winters, like skiing and some indoor games like badminton, carrom, boxing, etc. Unfortunately, we have very limited indoor complexes; that also only at the district level. Today there is not much difference between urban and rural areas. The government has extended road connectivity to every corner of the valley under different schemes like PMGSY and NABARD schemes, etc. People live with relative comfort but we need to take sports facilities to remote areas as well.
Engaging our youth
We can see little children playing on roads where they have the risk of accidents. We must consider the safety and security of the children. We must discuss these issues. Indoor complexes should be sanctioned at panchayat Halqa levels so that everyone gets a chance to take part in his or her favourite sports activities. It will boost interest among sports lovers and provide them a chance to spend winter in a very comfortable way. Otherwise, winters make people sick and lazy.
Sports as a profession
Sports activities provide employment for millions of people in our country who are linked with it, from manufacturing industries to great personalities. Sports activities provide us a great chance to adopt it as a profession, like players who can present the country at the international level.
Sports provide us a chance to be fit and healthy. Sports activities are the best and improve our physical fitness.