 bill no 149 of  2015 the compulsory sports education and infrastructure development in schools bill,  2015 by shri rajeev  satav, mp a billto provide for compulsory sports education from primary to senior secondary level and provision of requisite infrastructure in schools and for matters connected therewithbe it enacted by parliament in the sixty-sixth  year of the republic of  india  as follows:—short title, extent and commencement(2) it extends to the whole of indiadefinitions2 in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,—(a) "appropriate government" means in the case of a state, the government of that state and in all other cases, the central government;5(b) "infrastructure" means requisite resources such as play ground, articles of sports, sports instructor and such other physical framework of facilities as are required for sports in the school;(c) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this act; and (d) "school" means any government school or a government aided school or a private school, by whatever name called103 (1) as soon as may be, the central government shall formulate a national policy for providing sports education and ensuring requisite infrastructure development in all schools of the country(2) the national policy referred to in sub-section (1) shall include the following provisions:—15formulation of a national policy for providing sports education and infrastructure development in schools(i) encouraging sports and sports education and creating awareness of importance of sports among students;(ii) providing free and compulsory sports education in the schools to all the students;(iii) ensuring the availability of sports instructor in all the schools;20(iv) providing adequate financial assistance for infrastructure development for sports education in all the schools;(v) seeking assistance of mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee scheme for infrastructure development in the schools in rural areas;(vi) preparing standard and qualitative syllabus for sport education;25(vii) incorporating sports as a compulsory subject in the schools; (viii) providing sports scholarship/stipend to the students with outstanding performance in sports;(ix) providing weightage to marks obtained in sports for admission in institutions of higher education; and30(x) according preference to the outstanding sports persons in recruitment to posts under the central and the state government services 4 (1) it shall be the duty of the appropriate government to implement the national policy formulated under section 335implementation of the national policy by the appropriate government(2) the appropriate government shall review the progress and quality of sports education being provided by the schools, from time to time, in such manner, as may be prescribed5 (1) the central government shall, by notification in the official gazette, constitute a fund to be known to be known as national sports education and infrastructure development fund for carrying out the purposes of this act40(2) the central government and the state governments shall contribute to the fund in such ratio as may be prescribedconstitution of a national sports education and infrastructure development fund6 where a school violates the provision of this act, the appropriate government may take such action, including withdrawal of recognition of the school, in such manner, as may be prescribedpunishment for violation of provision of the actpower to make rules7 (1) the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this act510(2) every rule made under this act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each house of parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both the houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule statement of objects and reasonsindia is a country having the highest number of youth in the coming time, crores of children shall become youth and these children will be the real future of the country from demographic dividend point of view the responsibility of overall development of children lies on society and the government the ancient civilization and culture of india has been very rich and the importance of sports in various forms and structures is evident since time immemorialin the recent phase of human and social development, this assumes all the more significance in this context, some constructive initiatives to espouse sports as an important factor in the overall development of children is required today sports are played through the length and breadth of the country in an unstructured way there is no dearth of talent in various sports in the country the only shortcoming is that they seldom get proper resources and training in a bid to identify real talent, requisite environment needs to be created for children at the school itself positive initiative in this regard may be made by making sports education compulsory in schools increase in the number of the youth having positive and vibrant energy will provide pace and momentum to the development of the country sports stills a sense of community feeling, discipline and zeal to be organized compulsory sports education in schools will identify talent and make india excel in the global sport and competitions therefore, it is necessary that compulsory sports education be made at the school levelhence this billnew delhi;rajeev satavfebruary 24, 2015 financial memorandumclause 3 of the bill provides for the formulation of a national policy for providing sports education and infrastructure development in schools it also provides for creating awareness of sports among students, free and compulsory sports education, availability of sports instructor, financial assistance for infrastructure development, scholarship/stipend to students in schools clause 5 provides for constitution of a national sports education and infrastructure development fund the bill, therefore, if enacted, will involve expenditure from the consolidated fund of india at this stage, it is difficult to give an exact estimate of the actual expenditure to be incurred on it however, it is estimated that a recurring expenditure of rupees fifteen thousand crore will be involved from the consolidated fund of india per annuma non-recurring expenditure of rupees one hundred crore is also likely to be involved memorandum  regarding  delegated  legislationclause 7 of the bill empowers the central government to make rules for carrying out the purposes of the bill as the rules relate to matters of details only, the delegation of legislative power is of a normal character———————— a billto provide for compulsory sports education from primary to senior secondary level and provision of requisite infrastructure in schools and for matters connected therewith————(shri rajeev satav, mp)gmgipmrnd—21ls(s3)—30-04-2015