The Delhi Sports University is expected to start admitting students from classes 6 to 9 from April 2022. It will start operations at the Ludlow Sports Castle in the Civil Lines area of New Delhi.
In an interview with a news agency, Delhi Sports University Vice Chancellor Karnam Malleswari said students who came in at a young age would be ready for the Olympics by the time they turned 18 or 19. Malleswari, a former weightlifter and the first woman to bring home an Olympic medal said, teams from the university would visit sports belts of the country to identify talent.
She said the good thing about the university was that it would have a school to enrol students at a young age and groom them for the Olympics.
“We will start admitting students from Class 6 onwards and that student will remain with us till the PhD level. The good thing will be that if an 11-year-old child comes to us, then by the time he reaches 18-19, he will be ready for the Olympics. We are planning to start admissions by April and will enrol students from classes 6-9,” she added.
The admissions to the school are likely to start from April next year and the classes for the school will start at the Ludlow Sports Castle. Initially, 250 students will be enrolled, Malleswari said.
“The students will learn what is there in the school curriculum. However, the classes will be designed in a flexible way. They will go for training in the morning, then have breakfast and it will be followed by classes. Instead of seven-hour classes, which is the norm in schools, the classes will be for three hours followed by lunch, some rest and evening (training) sessions. This is what we have planned till now and it’s still not on paper,” she said.
Malleswari said the university will be ready in two to three years. “We just have land for the university and to create the infrastructure we need two to three years. The sports that we have chosen for which we will be identifying talent are shooting, weightlifting, badminton, table tennis, athletics, swimming and archery,” she said.
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