News : Ministry to make sports mandatory in schools

India's Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, in a bid to promote sports in India, said that a games period will be made mandatory in schools after reducing the syllabus by 50 percent by next year. Rathore said, "We have come to a stage where sports is not part of our education, it is education. The ministry of education is ensuring that the syllabus in schools by 2019 is reduced by 50 percent and there will be a sports period on a regular basis." Rathore also said that the ministry is planning several things to make sports more relevant at the grassroot level.