FIT INDIA MOVEMENT

Hon’ble Prime Minister of India has launched the Fit India Movement on 29 Aug 2019 with a view to make Physical Fitness a way of life. Fit India Movement aims at behavioural changes – from sedentary lifestyle to physically active way of day-to-day living. Fit India would be a success only when it becomes a people’s movement. We have to play the role of a catalyst.

‘How to Live’ ought to be the first pillar of formal education. This involves teaching and practicing the art of taking care of one’s body and health daily. Schools have to be the first formal institution after home where physical fitness is taught and practiced.

In the above background, the Fit India Mission encourages Schools to Organise a Fit India School Week in month of November/December. It has also prepared a set of Fit India School Certification with simple and easy parameters.

School is the first place where habits are formed. School children should be encouraged to indulge in active field time during school hours involving fitness and sports activities.

This will instil in students the understanding for regular physical activity and higher levels of fitness, thus enhancing self-esteem and confidence in them. Keeping these objectives in mind, Fit India School Week program was launched in 2019.

Every year “Fit India School Week” will be celebrated virtually by schools in November, December.