Stressing that India has the world’s highest youth population, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday said the country’s children…
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Stressing that India has the world’s highest youth population, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday said the country’s children and youth must take up sports as a profession and government should support them.
Delivering the inaugural address at the India Open 2018, in New Delhi, Naidu said: “Sports can contribute to nation building in a huge way by not only fostering the spirit of Indian-ness but also in creating facilities and infrastructure.”
“India with the world’s highest youth population must encourage children or youth to take up sports as a profession and government must support it,” he added.
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Naidu said the “sacred fire” of nation-building is the intense combination of aspirations, emotions and excitement of more than a billion souls which unites and throbs into a single heart beat called, ‘Bharat’.
“Sport is one such field that contributes to these moments. These moments are sacred fire that engulfs this nation when our own sons and daughters represent us in the world championships. Some may call this mass-frenzy. But I choose to call it as sacred fire,” he said.
He further said progress in technology will encourage the role of sports in nation building.
“With enormous progress in technology, IT revolution and social media, the role of sports in nation building will grow further in our country,” he said.
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