Sports policy a step away from implementation at GU

Updated on: Wednesday, July 20, 2011

The state sports policy is just one step away from being implemented in the Goa University and its affiliated colleges. The policy has been recently granted approval by the university's executive council and is now awaiting the governor's nod. Nearly 8,000 students are set to benefit from the policy's implementation.

"The executive council has approved the sports policy. Its implementation is now subject to the governor's nod. The policy will be notified the very next day of the governor's approval. The policy comes into force from the time the chancellor approves it," Goa University registrar Vijayendra Kamat told TOI on Tuesday. The governor is also the chancellor of the Goa University.

Special leave of absence for students who attend national and international sports events and grant of concessional marks for bringing laurels for the state and the country in sports are some of the perks students can look forward to during the current academic year.

The Goa University has not yet divulged the quantum of concessions its students can expect. But the policy provides for reservation of up to 5% seats from Class V to the graduation level for sports stars.

The university could not implement the sports policy immediately after it was brought in force by the state government at the school and higher secondary level as the university needed to assess prevailing standards set by several ordinances that govern various professional and degree programmes with reference to granting of sports merit marks and exemption from attendance. The Goa Medical College, for example, is governed by the Medical Council of India.

The GU's academic council had therefore constituted a sub-committee to deliberate on the sports policy. The standing committee had given its nod to the sports policy in principle and the policy was then sent for the academic council's approval.

In the case of a university, a state policy requires an ordinance to be brought into force to convert the policy's requirements into rules and regulations, which was done on the policy's approval by the executive council.

Times of India

Sports policy a step away from implementation at GU

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