AN APPRAISAL OF LAW RELATING TO SPORTS IN INDIA: A CRITIQUE
Keywords:
Sports Law, Council, Schedule and ConstitutionAbstract
The history of sports in India dates back to the ancient times in the time of Indus Valley Civilization and Vedas. There were some well defined the values mantras in the Athrava Veda saying “Duty is my right hand and the Fruit of victory in my left”. Sports has a v.ery prominent role in modern society. It plays very important role to recreate and develop the individual, group and a nation. Sport is a physical activity carried out under an agreed set of rules with a recreational purpose, for competition or self enjoyment or a combination of these.i The word sports derived from old French word “desporter”, which literally means “to carry away”, as in carry away from work. The French word “desporter” was formed from the Latin word “desportare”, “des” means “away” and “portare” means “to carry”, thus the word sport was used to denote pleasant time as well as it was use to mean game involving physical exercise.ii The British Sports Council provides wider definition of sports which includes physical skills, physical effort, accessibility, strategy and tactics, essential purpose, physical challenge, risk, uniqueness, political, moral or other ethical considerations.iii According to Sports Charter of the Council of Europe, sport means all forms of physical activity through causal or organised participation aim at expressing or improving physical fitness and mental well being forming social relationship or obtaining results in competition at all levels.iv After Independence, we adopted written Constitution in 1950 and sports has been classified in State List, Schedule VII in Entry 33.
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