Everyone is happy that India, for the first time in history, got more than 2 medals in an Olympics and the media are gaga over it. They even started predicting 10+ medals for India in London 2012. Though me too is confident that one day India will reach there, I am skeptical if it would be within four years. Here are my reasons.
We keep cribbing about government not spending enough for sporting infrastructure. Where will the money come from when the taxes collected is not sufficient even for our basic needs and defense?.
Does our Indian education system impart the value in our citizens to be duty bound towards our country and pay our taxes? Does it give importance to the moral and ethical responsibilities of a citizen to be taught at school level? It all starts from the exam system by giving more importance to marks than knowledge and hence making the student get it by all means, even if unethical. A value less education produces tons of graduates and our GDP is also increasing but income to the government is still less. How can the government spend on sporting infrastructure when there are hundreds of basic necessities to be fulfilled?
The second malady of our exam based education system is it inherently discourages sports. In the mad race to secure perfect 100 in all subjects in board exams who will look at practicing sports?
Unless a change happens at this grass root level we can only dream of becoming a sporting super power. We will produce a few gems here and there but they will come up despite the system and not due to it. Miles to go .... but lets keep the hope...
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