Question: Country’s biggest school sport outreach programme Mission XI Million was launched to encourage children to play… .
(a) Cricket
(b) Football
(c) Hockey
(d) Kabaddi
Ans: (b)
- On 10th February, 2017, the biggest school sport outreach programme Mission XI Million was launched by the Minister of State (I/C) for Youth Affairs and Sports Vijay Goel in the presence of President of AIFF Praful Patel.
- A first of its kind, the programme will encourage children to play the beautiful game of football, gain healthy habits and learn important life lessons in teamwork and sportsman spirit.
- It is a massive school engagement programme for football. It has been designed with international sporting expertise keeping in mind the ground realities of our huge and varied country.
- It aims to instill the passion for football in 11 million children from every part of the country.
- It is divided into three phases: seminars for teacher and educators, in-school activities and football festivals, which will run up to September 2017.
- The approach is to work with school principals and sports teachers and encourage and incentivize them to make children play football games on regular basis.
- FIFA U-17 World Cup being held in India in October this year, it is a good opportunity to showcase India’s infrastructure and ability to organize and execute global sporting events.
Reference:
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