Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar wants Sports to be a Mandatory Subject in Every Schools

Member of Parliament (MP) of the Rajya Sabha, master blaster Sachin Tendulkar has started an initiative to include sports as a mandatory subject in every school. Tendulkar is presenting every MP a booklet that contains the life story of some 20 sporting legends of India, setting aside political boundaries.

“We can have at least 500 such inspirational stories. If the next generation gets encouraged and plays sport, India will become an economically stronger nation by 2030,” Sachin was heard saying to Hindustan Times yesterday.

The booklet titled “Unforgettable sporting heroes and legends of India,” contains the profiles of legends such as Dhyan Chand, Milkha Singh, Prakash Padukone, Ajit Wadekar, PK Banerjee, Mary Kom etc.

“The HRD and sports ministries are working on this already. It’s my dream to see sports being treated on a par with physics, maths or history. It’s my endeavor to change the mindset, and if we can build a healthy generation, we would have saved India from an economic disaster,” Sachin stated, whose tenure as an MP will terminate next year.

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Further talking about the same Sachin mentioned that many of his fans, who are now young parents, if they get motivated by the stories of our old heroes and encourages their children to take up a sport, it will be the biggest gift.

“As a cricketer, I had always set lofty benchmarks. If parents and schools love their kids, then sport should be their second religion. I am just trying to make them aware,” Tendulkar stated when asked who will push his dream when he will leave Rajya Sabha.

Tendulkar revealed that the booklet has a two-fold intention. While the first one is to include sport in the existing Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act of 2009, it would also serve as a tribute to a generation that deserves a “respectable and stable life.”

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“What happened to our former hockey captain Mohammed Shahid was just shameful. We can’t afford to forget our national heroes,” said Tendulkar. The mercurial Shahid, whose stickwork left the tightest of defenses in disarray and helped India win their last Olympics gold in Moscow in 1980, died in July 2016 in pain and utter neglect,” Tendulkar signed off.

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