Schools, Colleges To Live-Stream 'Fit India Movement' Launch By PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch 'Fit India Movement' tomorrow. The launch event will be held at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium, New Delhi. At the launch, the Prime Minister will deliver an address and will also administer a fitness pledge. The event will be broadcast live by Doordarshan. 

University Grants Commission (UGC) has asked higher educational institutes to make necessary arrangements for students, faculty, and staff to view the Prime Minister's address on the launch of the movement.

As part of the Fitness ledge, UGC has asked everyone to walk at least 10,000 steps on August 29, 2019, and follow it up in their daily routine.

UGC has also asked higher educational institutes to make institutional fitness plan and incorporate daily exercise activities for everyone to adopt and practice.

UGC is also developing a Fit India Movement Portal where the institutes will upload their fitness action plans. The institutes are also mandated to upload and publicise the fitness plan on notice boards and their respective websites.

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has also instructed its affiliated schools to make necessary arrangements for viewing/ hearing of the launch function of the Fit India Movement.

Both UGC and CBSE have asked educational institutes to upload videos and photographs from the launch event held at the affiliated institutes on a monitoring portal maintained by the two authorities respectively.

(Source: NDTV Education)