Title of the Practice

                  Discipline through Sports

Objectives of the Practice

                  Sports play a pivotal role in shaping one’s personality and maintaining good health and sound mind. The College offers a conducive sports environment that provides many supports such as financial and physical to sports boys and girls in participation of different sports and games. This created a sense of pride in achievements in different sports activities. The main mission of the college is to bring out students the innate talents and hidden potentials in sports. The objectives of this practice are:
                        To inspire, support, and empower students to engage in physical activity and healthy lifestyles.
                        To foster self-confidence, collaboration, and perseverance while preparing them to confront challenges in life.
                        To increase social interaction, self-esteem, and a positive attitude towards life.
                        To help the players achieve their full potential by offering them both physical and emotional supports.
                        To produce state/national/international level players.

The Context

                  Sports and Games are extremely important for student's overall development. Sports are believed to enhance student's concentration, discipline, teamwork, mental acuity, and confidence. The students' competitive mentality also drives them to achieve academic excellence. As many of the college students hailing from the rural parts and, it is observed that these students are physically fit for any challenges in their own fields of interest. Considering this as strength, the department of Physical Education closely monitors the students who succeed in sports and provides them with all the necessary assistance whenever they require. The college encourages its students to participate in sports by providing the best facilities. By actively participating in sports, students also develop coping mechanisms and strategies for stressful situations.

The Practice

                  Right from the time of admission, the college ascertains the sports aptitude of the students and appoint a well-qualified and experienced coach to train and guide the students in sports activities. A micro-level sports talent search is a part of the admissions process for the sports quota, and the college offers the necessary skill training throughout the academic year. Additionally, there is a system of continual observation that improves performance and helps to achieve in particular sport event.

                  Further, our management aims to serve as a model in framing and grooming young talents by offering free education for the outstanding sports personalities along with free boarding and lodging. It also appointed well qualified as well as specialized coaches/trainers (SAI-NIS Training/State/National Medallists) to train and guide the players. The regular training and upgradation practice commence right from the beginning of the academic year along with academic activities. The college has five acres of land especially for sports activities, training halls, indoor auditorium, and well-furnished ground for football, basketball, handball, kho-kho and badminton. It also has a well-equipped gym in the men’s hostel.

                  The department of Physical Education periodically conducts various training camps and individual events which provide an excellent opportunity to our students to train and excel. Apart from that, the department has physical education course as an extension activity in the OBE curriculum which is mandatory to all the undergraduate students. The aid rendered by our management, the Physical Education Director and the coaches make the sports personalities of the college shine in all competitions. The rigorous and mind-blowing support grooms the players, so that they bring many laurels at the university, state, national and international level sports competition.

Evidence of Success

                  Adequate infra-structure, the seamless support given by the management and outstanding performance of the players takes the college to the next level in all the sports events. The college produced 90 University Blues; the highest honour granted to individual sportspeople at the university level. Utilizing the facilities, the college students grab many medals, awards and championships in the university/state/national/ international level sports, events/ competitions. They are as follows:

Athletics

Ball Badminton

Boxing

Cycling

Fencing

Grappling

Judo

Karate

Road Cycling

Roller Skate Basketball

Roller Skating

Taekwondo

Best Sports Person Award

Problems Encountered and Resources Required

                        Time constraint is one of the problems encountered during sports practice.
                        Difficulties in Fund mobilization/finding sponsorship for certain sports.
                        Lack of coaches/trainers for boxing, archery, athletics, and judo.
                        Nonavailability of synthetic court for athletic and turf court for hockey.
                        The management of the college is taking a lot of initiatives to raise funds for encouraging sports and games.
Despite various resource problems, the college teams won several medals/awards in different categories during the assessment period.