Couch potatoes among students have bad news. Besides struggling hard to achieve those top grades, they will now have to put in rigorous hours of physical exercise on their school campuses to prove their physical fitness as well.
The isolated ‘games’ period that usually has a small number of active students taking to sports and games will soon be a passé with a new system being put in place to examine the students’ physical fitness based on their speed, flexibility, strength, explosive strength, agility and endurance.
And to prove these attributes, students, from fourth class to 10{+t}{+h}class, will be put through a series of tests which include a 30-mts flying start/50 mts dash (to check speed), sit-and-reach/bend-and-reach, chin-ups/push-ups/medicine ball throw (for flexibility and strength of upper body), standing broad jump/vertical jump (explosive strength of lower body) and jump 10 mtsX6 shuttle run, 600-mts/800 mts/12 min. walk and run (cooper’s test) to test one’s agility and endurance.
The Government has designed a novel mechanism to usher in a new energy in all primary, upper primary and high schools (from fourth class to 10{+t}{+h}class) across Andhra Pradesh. “The PETs will prepare a fitness-level card for each student and these cards, in the second phase, will be seeded to the Aadhaar cards,” AP State Yoga and Sports Officer Peram Ravindranath told The Hindu.
The first round will be conducted by July 15 while the second round by February 15.
To be seeded to Aadhar card later
