The University Grants Commission (UGC), pushing an idea floated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has sent a communication to all Vice Chancellors, asking them to invite sports persons who have won medals in various events.
Such an interaction would help promote sports activities among students and inspire students to take part in sporting activities, feels UGC.
"...Inviting medal winners to your campus to interact with students can have a major impact in nurturing the culture of sports, the benefits of which are immeasurable," the communication said while citing an idea suggested by Modi while addressing the felicitation ceremony of the medal winners of the 17th Asian Games.
Indulging in sporting activities not only help students to keep their body fit and healthy but also helps them to focus their mind and teach them the art of handling pressure, it said.
"It is an activity where only talent emerges as the winner and as such it inculcates discipline, perseverance and the spirit of competition among them," the communication said.