RTI reveals Hockey is not National Game of India Government says to 10-year-old Aishwarya Parashar
RTI reveals Hockey is not National Game of India Government says to 10-year-old Aishwarya Parashar
Until today, I thought Hockey was the national Game of India but today
Right to information act opened the eyes.
Lucknow based 10 year old Aishwarya Parashar filed an right to information application to the Prime Minister’s office seeking certified copies of orders related to declaration of National anthem, song, sport, animal, bird, flower and symbol.
After this PMO transferred the application to the Home Ministry
Then Home Ministry forwarded the application to Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sport.
In a reply, Sports Ministry under Secretary Shiv Pratap Singh Tomar wrote in Hindi to Aishwarya that the ministry has not declared any sport or game to be the National Game.
This means that India has no national game.
Hockey is not national game of India
Until now, every Indian learned that Hockey is the national game of India and even we wrote about it proudly even government web portals also say
Hockey is the national game of India.
Now let us hope now Indian government will declare Hockey as the National game of India
Suggested Reading –
Do We Remember Indian National Game is Hockey
http://realityviews.blogspot.in/2009/08/do-we-remember-indian-national-game-is.html
Reality views by sm –
Thursday, August 02, 2012
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11 comments:
shocking news really!
They should have double checked before replying...hope they amend the reply and declare hockey as national game.
Sm, this particular post I could not click on title..I see gap from date to title..I clicked read more... also if you see right side of my blog, title is missing for this post but your blog is pulled up with latest update..Not an issue, just thought of telling you.
@ashok
thanks.
@Usha
thanks.
thanks for feedback i have corrected the problem.
ohh really well f indian people loves hockey it should be your national game
@MEcoy
thanks.
Let us hope Cricket will be made our national game.
@Narender
thanks.
The whole “national game” debate is honestly overblown. Whether hockey is officially the national sport or not doesn’t really change how people engage with it. Popularity matters more than labels. Same with games, people go where the excitement is. I’ve been looking at https://chickenroad-2.in.net/ , which is an online crash game review in India explaining Chicken Road 2 mechanics, RTP, and betting strategies. It supports UPI and PayTM and lets you try demo mode first. That kind of accessibility matters more than official titles or labels.
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