{"id":134840,"date":"2020-08-18T01:42:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T20:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=134840"},"modified":"2020-08-18T01:42:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T20:12:13","slug":"fdp-on-health-interventions-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/08\/18\/fdp-on-health-interventions-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"FDP on health interventions underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RONO HILLS, Aug 17:<\/strong> The physical education department of Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) here launched a virtual five-day faculty development programme (FDP) on the theme &#8216;Health interventions for fit and prosperous India&#8217; on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Altogether 221 participants registered for the FDP on the first day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Attending the webinar, MoS for Youth Affairs &amp; Sports Kiren Rijiju explained how &#8220;negatively skewed health indicators are the reflection of the poor health of the citizens.&#8221; He said he believed that &#8220;only fitness&#8221; would lead the nation to economic prosperity and aid in &#8220;psycho-physiological and socio-emotional wellbeing of citizens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He expressed appreciation for the HRD ministry for treating physical education and sports as one of the core subjects and doing away with the earlier practice of treating physical education as a co-curricular item in the new education policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rijiju expressed regret that despite the hard work put in by Indian sportspersons, India is lagging behind in the medal tally because &#8220;the players are not getting scientific support to enhance their performance and overcome their technical errors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In this respect, the ministry is working on developing scientific support for sportspersons, and the centre of excellence at RGU and the Manipur Sports University will play a pivotal role in the process,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RGU Vice Chancellor, Prof Saket Kushwaha said he was hopeful that the FDP would enhance the &#8220;acceptability of sports science in society as a career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prof Biswajit Basumatary spoke on the &#8216;Relevance of physical education and sports in new education policy&#8217;, and dwelt on the importance of sports not only for fitness but also for character development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prof BC Kapri spoke about fitness and the use of yoga to manage fitness by all categories of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RONO HILLS, Aug 17: The physical education department of Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) here launched a virtual five-day faculty development programme (FDP) on the theme &#8216;Health interventions for fit and prosperous India&#8217; on Monday. Altogether 221 participants registered for the FDP on the first day. Attending the webinar, MoS for Youth Affairs &amp; Sports Kiren [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-134840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}