To motivate and encourage students to excel in the field of sports, the life stories of Punjab’s four great players — legendary hockey player Balbir Singh senior, ‘Flying Sikh’ Milkha Singh, Asian Champion Boxer Kaur Singh, and India's first Arjuna Awardee Olympian Athlete Gurbachan Singh Randhawa — will be taught to the students.
Announcing this, Punjab School Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains on Sunday said that in consonance with the Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s commitment to boost the sports culture in the state and to make Punjab a leader in sports arena, the School Education Department has made the biographies of great sons of soil, a part of its syllabus from this academic year.
Bains said that this time, the brief biographies of four great sportsmen of Punjab have been inserted in the textbooks of physical education. “Our great players proved their skills in every field, especially in sports, and these biographies will motivate younger generations to realize their dreams with grit and glory,” he said.
The Minister added said that member of three-time Olympic Champion Hockey Team Balbir Singh Senior, legendary athlete Milkha Singh famous as ‘Flying Sikh’, Asian Champion Boxer Kaur Singh and India's first Arjuna Awardee Olympian Athlete Gurbachan Singh Randhawa has been included in the textbooks of physical education of Classes IX and X.