The Hockey players
and fans will be disappointed to know that the game, which had fetched six
consecutive Olympic gold medals to our country, is not considered as the
'national game'. It was clear in an RTI reply by the Sports Ministry that
the government has not declared any sports as national game. Surprisingly, an
article on field hockey is be found under the section National Game on the
government web portal www.india.gov.in.
In an reply to the
10-year-old Aishwarya Parashar, who had filed an RTI application to the Prime
Minister's Office (PMO) seeking certified copies of orders related to
declaration of National anthem, song, sport, animal, bird, flower and symbol,
Sports Ministry Under Secretary Shiv Pratap Singh Tomar wrote that the ministry
has not declared any sport or game to be the National Game.
Aishwarya's queries
were transferred from the PMO to the Home Ministry, which later forwarded to
the National Sport to the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
However, the
government portal under the section 'National Symbol' has given details of 14
symbols which include - flag, bird, flower, tree, Anthem, River, Aquatic
Animal, State Emblem, Calendar, Animal, Song, Fruit, Game, Currency Symbol.
Source: Press Trust of India
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