The Fit India School Week: SAI’s Fitness Programmes In Schools

Edited By Nidhi Agarwal | Updated on Apr 07, 2023 09:00 AM IST

For a good healthy life, fitness is essential. Without health even all the success that you achieved in your professional life is totally wasted. With a vision to make India fit, Sports Authority of India started many programmes. One such programme is the Fit India movement.

The Fit India movement was launched by the Prime Minister Of India, Narendra Modi on August 29, 2019. The major motive of this movement is for transforming physical fitness into a way of life. The movement includes various events like Fit India Schools Week, Fit India Freedom Run, Fit India Quiz, Fit India Freedom Rider Biker Rallies and many more.

The Fit India School Week: SAI’s Fitness Programmes In Schools

Fit India School Week is organised from November to December. A total of 1,17,844 students participated in the event in the year 2022. Also, it has created a set of simple parameters that a school can achieve and be awarded with a Fit India School Certification.

Through this article, Careers360 hopes to enlighten readers about the school events till date that are certified by the Fit India movement.

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FIT India School Week

In collaboration with the Ministry of Education, the first Fit India School Week was observed during the third week of November 2019. The first school week had participation from over 15,000 schools.

The second iteration took place from December 2020 to January 2021, in that edition more than 4.3 lakh schools nationwide participated. This version included yoga, free hand drawing, painting, debate and discussions, and symposiums.

The third iteration was held from November 2021 to January 2022. Almost 4.5 lakh students from all over India participated in the Healthy India School Week. The celebration of Healthy India School Week included events like yoga, dance, debates, meditation, symposiums, lectures, and more.

The fourth edition of Fit India School Week was held from November 15 to January 31, 2023.

EVENT NAME	EVENT DATE
Third Fit India School Week	November to December, 2022
Second Fit India School Week	December, 2020 to January, 2021
First Fit India School Week	November, 2019

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Fit India School Certification

The Fit India movement also started certifying schools with the Fit India school certification, which entitled schools to use Fit India Logo and Fit India Flag. If schools have few basic facilities or parameters set by the Fit India, then it can self certify themself by registering online at the official website.

Schools certified by Fit India can claim for three star or five star, once they satisfy the parameters set for each certification.

Parameters:

FLAG: Schools with a playground for two or more outdoor sports, and at least one active physical education teacher can register themself for Fit India School certificate. Schools also need to have a physical education period in their curriculum and students need to spend at least 60 minutes daily on physical activity.
3-Star: For 3-star certification schools need at least two teachers trained with any two sports and also celebrate Fit India School Week. Sport facilities for four sports including two outdoor sports. Teachers spend 60 minutes in physical activity every day and students learn and play at least two sports.
5-Star: 5-star is the highest certification provided by Fit India to any school. Apart from all the parameters for 3 star certification, a school needs to fulfil a few more parameters to get their 5 star certificate. Schools need to include annual fitness assessment for students, quarterly intra-school sports competitions, participate in inter-school sports competition and celebrate annual sports day. All teaching staff should be trained in physical education and have at least two or more sports coaches. Schools should have a physical education curriculum as per NCERT, or CBSE, or SCERT. Lastly, schools should provide their playground during non-school hours for outsiders, with or without a reasonable fee.

Number of Schools With Fit India Certification: State-wise

STATE	FLAG	3 STAR	5 STAR
Rajasthan	55,512	4,736	1,647
Bihar	51,525	1,021	231
Gujarat	47,541	6,989	2,459
Tamil Nadu	40,051	10,034	2,399
Odisha	33,104	1,421	413
Assam	31,155	628	284
Jharkhand	29,013	390	70
Karnataka	24,812	2,263	1,064
Maharashtra	16,703	1,567	367
Jammu and Kashmir	16,625	1,851	535
Punjab	14,839	1,248	257
Uttar Pradesh	14,680	1,525	514
Madhya Pradesh	12,000	861	224
Himachal Pradesh	11,438	791	202
Andhra Pradesh	10,562	2,595	564
Telangana	9,245	1,495	706
Haryana	7,621	835	264
Kerala	5,579	345	149
Uttarakhand	4,857	298	68
Chhattisgarh	3,794	166	47
Delhi	3,104	975	259
Tripura	2,014	50	14
Meghalaya	1,365	45	1
Goa	855	226	82
West Bengal	538	133	33
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	501	175	32
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	488	63	27
Chandigarh	407	127	35
Sikkim	383	34	3
Puducherry	286	69	18
Ladakh	215	17	1
Arunachal Pradesh	208	55	10
Nagaland	90	18	3
Manipur	89	23	4
Lakshadweep	40	10	0
Mizoram	25	8	0

There are many plans by the Fit India team to honour Fit India 3-Star and 5-Star Schools by organising functions at the state head-1uarters. Fit India 5 Star Schools could be felicitated at State level Republic Day and Independence Day functions too.

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