{"id":14456,"date":"2020-08-14T21:45:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T16:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=14456"},"modified":"2020-08-14T21:45:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T16:15:11","slug":"indian-railways-to-fully-support-implementation-of-fit-india-freedom-run-starting-from-15th-august-to-2nd-october-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=14456","title":{"rendered":"Indian Railways to fully support implementation of \u201cFit India Freedom Run\u201d starting from 15th August to 2nd October 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"MinistryNameSubhead text-center\">Ministry of Railways<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-center\">\n<h2>Indian Railways to fully support implementation of \u201cFit India Freedom Run\u201d starting from 15th August to 2nd October 2020<br \/>\n<span id=\"ltrSubtitle\"><br \/>\n\u2018Fit India Freedom Run\u2019 was launched on Friday by Minister of State for Youth Affairs &amp; Sports (Independent Charge) and Minister of State for Minority Affairs, Shri Kiren Rijiju and was graced by Shri V.K. Yadav, Chairman, Railway Board<\/p>\n<p>To make \u2018Fit India Freedom Run\u2019 a great success, all the General Managers have been asked to spread maximum awareness among Railway family and to ensure maximum participation<\/p>\n<p>Indian Railways have around 10,000 sport spersons and 300 coaches in 29 game disciplines on its roll. 6 out of total 32 National Sports Awards in 2019-20 were conferred on Indian Railways Sports persons<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ReleaseDateSubHeaddateTime text-center pt20\">\u00a0PIB Delhi<\/div>\n<div class=\"pt20\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Indian Railways has decided to fully support \u00a0the new initiative \u201cFit India Freedom Run&#8221; introduced by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India . This event would continue from 15th August to 2nd October 2020. The initiative is being taken up under the aegis \u00a0of the Fit Indian Movement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fit India Run&#8221; has been conceived keeping in view the indispensable need to keep ourselves fit while maintaining social distancing. In this run one \u00a0can run\/walk along a route of his\/her choice, at a time that suits him\/her. One can even take breaks during such run\/walk. Basically, one runs his own race and times his own pace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Fit India Freedom Run\u2019 was launched on Friday by Minister of State for Youth Affairs &amp; Sports (Independent Charge) and Minister of State for Minority Affairs, Shri Kiren Rijiju and was graced by Shri V.K. Yadav, Chairman, Railway Board. To make the initiative successful, all the Zonal Railways\/Units have been advised to spread the awareness and ensure large participation in the movement by encouraging participation of a large number of Railway officials, their families and relatives in the \u2018Fit India Freedom Run\u2019 and to make themselves fit by taking simple steps as given in the guidelines set by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India and stated on their website :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitindia.gov.in\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">www.fitindia.gov.in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Indian Railways have great legacy of sports promotion in India since beginning. It is the biggest promoter of Sports in India by way of providing employment to 300-400 sportspersons every year and giving them all facility and a conducive atmosphere for them to excel in sports to bring laurel to the country. Indian Railways have around 10,000 sportspersons and 300 coaches in 29 game disciplines on its roll. 6 out of total 32 National Sports Awards in 2019-20 were conferred on Indian Railways Sportspersons.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In order to create state of the art sports infrastructure and training, a provision of 0.5% D&amp;G Charges for \u2018Sports Development\u2019 has been included in all estimates.\u00a0 This is an unique initiative taken by Indian Railways for sports promotion and as a part of Fit India initiative.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To make \u2018Fit India Freedom Run\u2019 a great success, all the General Managers have been asked to spread maximum awareness among Railway family and to ensure maximum participation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Railways Indian Railways to fully support implementation of \u201cFit India Freedom Run\u201d starting from 15th August to 2nd October 2020 \u2018Fit India Freedom Run\u2019 was launched on Friday by Minister of State for Youth Affairs &amp; Sports (Independent Charge) and Minister of State for Minority Affairs, Shri Kiren Rijiju and was graced by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14457,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456\/revisions\/14457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}