Handbook of Physical Education for School Boys: Based on the Syllabus of Physical Education for Boys as in the National Plan of Physical Education and Recreation

Abstract

From Foreword: During the past six years the efforts of the Union Ministry of Education in physical education have been directed towards the development of the total personality of the child through physical activities of the kind enunciated by the Central Board of Physical Education and Recreation and outlined in detail in “A National Plan for Physical Education and Recreation”. For the successful working of democracy, a country requires not merely an educated community, but a community which is also healthy and physically fit. It is not surprising, therefore, that programmes of physical education have come to be regarded as an integral part of the school curriculum. In the “National Plan” two model syllabi of physical education for boys and girls up to the higher secondary standard were included, paving the way for the introduction of the physical education programme on a broad uniform pattern throughout the country, with sufficient scope for variations an d adaptations to suit local needs and preferences.