EMPOWERING FEMALES THROUGH FIT INDIA MOVEMENT PROGRAM

Fit India Movement is a nation-wide movement in India to encourage people to remain healthy and fit by including physical activities and sports in their daily lives. It was launched by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi at Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi on 29 August 2019 (National Sports Day). At present there are significant disparities in the gender distribution in India with a clear preponderance for males. At this juncture the government is taking all steps to improve the scenario. But the fact remains that there are very few initiatives being implemented to make the girl child stronger and healthier. Physical activity is important for everybody, including all teenagers, but especially for girls who are generally less active than boys in the same age. As teens juggle the transition from primary school to high school there are other pressures that come with it: socially, at home, and at school. Issues such as body image, the onset of menstruation, and general feelings of insecurity about the changing body can surface in these years. Physical activity sometimes takes a back seat to other priorities. However, physical activity is an important part of health and wellbeing, and girls should remain active as they grow up. The purpose of the research article is to shed light on the benefits which women and girls gain through participation in sports. The word Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social, educational, gender, or economic strength of individuals and communities. Today sports and physical activity as a strategy for the empowerment of girls and women has been gaining recognition worldwide. Women could be empowered through education, sports and physical activities and by giving them equal opportunities in different walks of life. A woman is both Mahamaya and Maha Shakti and holds the key of the world. As Swami Vivekananda wrote that it is very difficult to understand why in this country so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the Vedanta declares that one and the same Conscious self is present in all beings. In short, woman empowerment is the breaking of personal limitations. Sports and Physical Education play important and major role in all these segments of women Empowerment.

Fit India Movement is a nation-wide movement in India to encourage people to remain healthy and fit by including physical activities and sports in their daily lives. It was launched by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi at Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi on 29 August 2019 (National Sports Day). At present there are significant disparities in the gender distribution in India with a clear preponderance for males. At this juncture the government is taking all steps to improve the scenario. But the fact remains that there are very few initiatives being implemented to make the girl child stronger and healthier. Physical activity is important for everybody, including all teenagers, but especially for girls who are generally less active than boys in the same age. As teens juggle the transition from primary school to high school there are other pressures that come with it: socially, at home, and at school. Issues such as body image, the onset of menstruation, and general feelings of insecurity about the changing body can surface in these years. Physical activity sometimes takes a back seat to other priorities. However, physical activity is an important part of health and wellbeing, and girls should remain active as they grow up. The purpose of the research article is to shed light on the benefits which women and girls gain through participation in sports. The word Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social, educational, gender, or economic strength of individuals and communities. Today sports and physical activity as a strategy for the empowerment of girls and women has been gaining recognition worldwide. Women could be empowered through education, sports and physical activities and by giving them equal opportunities in different walks of life. A woman is both Mahamaya and Maha Shakti and holds the key of the world. As Swami Vivekananda wrote that it is very difficult to understand why in this country so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the Vedanta declares that one and the same Conscious self is present in all beings. In short, woman empowerment is the breaking of personal limitations. Sports and Physical Education play important and major role in all these segments of women Empowerment.

Introduction:-
Fit India Movement is a nation-wide movement in India to encourage people to remain healthy and fit by including physical activities and sports in their daily lives. It was launched by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi at Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi on 29 August 2019 (National Sports Day).
Sport is a vital piece of the culture of practically every country. Notwithstanding, its utilization to advance gender value and empower girls and women is frequently ignored in light of the fact that sport isn't all around saw as an appropriate or alluring interest for girls and women. It is valid in all nations that girls and women are more outlandish than boys and men to partake in sport, and sport keeps on being ruled by guys. It is a slip-up in any case, to accept this is on account of girls and women don't wish to take an interest.
Physical fitness is a dynamic concept and is continuously growing in its importance to everyday life and health. Although being an attribute that has a genetic basis, it is also sensitive to changes in type and amount of physical activity, mortality and injury. During history, physical fitness has been always interested in by different people with different perspective. Since the creation of man, physical fitness is being along the man surviving means and to need the necessary daily needs. Fitness has been recognised from time immoral as the greatest wealth. It has rightly been said, "though fitness may not be everything but everything without fitness is nothing. Physiology is the study of functions of the human body. In other words, the mechanisms by which the various organs and tissues carry out their activities are considered. Emphasis is often places on the processes that control and regulate these functions. In order for the body to function optimal, conditions within the body, referred to as the internal environment, must be very carefully regulated. Therefore, many important variables, such as body temperature, blood glucose, oxygen and carbon dioxide contact of the blood, as well as electrolyte balance, are actively maintained within narrow physiological limits.
Women inclusion in every single sporting activity will guarantee appropriate spread, multiplication and restoration of sport. Their way to deal with women's empowerment can be considered through sporting occasion is another phenomenon which is being considered by nations over the globe. Women's participation in all classifications of sporting activities can advance the use of functional skill as it empowers them to secure individual competency, group building, identity building and health improvement. This encourages in women empowerment, empowerment of group and socio social inclusion with corroborative results. (Report of the Sports Authority in India -Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports 2013).
Empowering girls and women through sport and physical activity is an essential assessment and research production , which concentrates on the impact of sport and physical activity programs on the on the lives of girls and women around the globe and how these projects are created.
Girls and women confront a lopsided number of life challenges, which lessen their capacity to accomplish maximum capacity. Late investigations demonstrate that notwithstanding formal certifications of equity, the general rate of advance for women members, those from the poorest and most underestimated areas of the world has been moderate. Women and girls keep on encountering disparities and hardships in their everyday lives, which keep them from contributing towards both the making of more fair social orders and practical development inside their groups and past.
Specialists concur that sport and physical activity involvement can conceivably offer a white scope of life benefits for girls and women. The International Platform on Sport and Department, a stage committed to the topical field of sport and development and started after the primary International Conference on Sport and Development in 2003, underscores or recommended the part of sport in advancing gender value. The stage refers to various advantages for physically dynamic girls and women. As per the present stage, sport involvement can assume a noteworthy part in advancing the physical and mental wellbeing of girls and women cultivating open doors for this authority and life achievement, starting social inclusion and social integration of girls and women, and testing gender standards.

Present Status of Physical Education and Sports in New Era:
Despites efforts by member state to promote and develop Physical Education and Sports with international cooperation; its distinctive nature and importance to education remains a constant source of concern. Physical Education and Sports proved alarming (particularly within educational system), which given the social importance and media-coverage of sports. Its impact may be seen in the shift by Physical Education and Sport Public authorities towards higperformance and high media friendly sports (at a national level, across the public and private system). A significant example in the absence of clear separation between the Ministries of Youth Affairs and Sports and Ministries of Education. The status of Physical Education and Sports convened the Physical Education World Summit in Berlin this initiative was promoted by reports revealing the increasing critical situation of Physical Education and Sports in many countries. A world wide comparative study collect data and literature for nearly 120 countries came out with following significant findings. a. Reduced time devoted to Physical Education in Educational Programmed. b. Reduced budgets plus inadequate financial, material and staff resources. c. The subject suffers from low status. d. In many countries teachers are not properly trained. e. Existing Physical Education guidelines are not properly applied.

Benefits Of Sports And Physical Activities
Physical Health -The physical health advantages of consistent physical activity are well-settled. Consistent participation in such activities is related with a more drawn out and better personal satisfaction, decreased dangers of an assortment of ailments and numerous mental and passionate advantages. There is additionally a substantial assemblage of writing demonstrating that inactivity is a standout amongst the hugest reasons for death, incapacity and diminished personal satisfaction in the created world.
Physical activity may impact the physical health of girls in two ways. To start with, it can influence the reasons for ailment amid adolescence and youth. Confirmation recommends a positive connection between physical activity and a large group of variables influencing girls' physical health, including diabetes, circulatory strain and the capacity to utilize fat for vitality. Second, physical activity could lessen the danger of incessant illnesses in later life. Various 'grown-up' conditions, for example, growth, diabetes and coronary illness, have their inceptions in youth, and can be supported, to a limited extent, by consistent physical activity in the early years. Likewise, consistent activity starting in youth enhances bone health, in this way counteracting osteoporosis, which prevalently influences females.
Weight merits extraordinary mention. There is by all accounts a general pattern towards expanded adolescence heftiness in a substantial number of nations, and this expansion is by all accounts especially predominant in girls from profoundly urbanized territories, some ethnic minorities and the handicapped. Stoutness in youth is known to have critical effect on both physical and mental health, including hyperlipidemia, hypertension and unusual glucose resistance. Physical activity can be an imperative element of a weight control program for girls, expanding calorific consumption and advancing fat lessening. In fact, late efficient audits on both the avoidance and treatment of youth heftiness recommend strategies for expanding physical activity.
Mental Health -as of late, there has been proof of irritatingly high rates of mental sick health among youths and significantly more youthful youngsters, going from low-self-esteem, nervousness and discouragement to dietary problems, substance mishandle and suicide. Immature girls are especially defenseless against uneasiness and depressive issue: by 15 years, girls are twice as likely as boys to have encountered a noteworthy depressive scene; girls are likewise fundamentally more probable than boys to have truly thought about suicide.
Research proposes two courses in which physical activities can add to mental health in girls. Right off the bat, there is genuinely steady proof that general activity can have a constructive outcome upon girls' mental well-being; without a doubt, a few examinations demonstrate that girls may react more firmly than boys as far as here and now benefits. Besides, look into has shown that physical activity can add to the diminishment of hazardous levels of nervousness and melancholy.
Confirmation is starting to be assembled for practice as a treatment for clinical sorrow, with contemplates finding that physical activity is as viable a treatment as antidepressants, and psychotherapy. So also, an assortment of nonclinical contemplates have discovered that more elevated amounts of activity were identified with bring down rates of discouragement. A position statement of the International Society of Sport Psychology drew out various mental health advantages of physical activity from the exploration writing, including decreased state tension, neuroticism and uneasiness, gentle to moderate dejection, and different sorts of stress.
Educational and Intellectual Development -A scope of confirmation recommends that for some, girls, sports and physical activities are certain highlights of their scholastic goals and achievement. The great investigation of the connection between physical activity and school execution was completed in France in the mid-1950s, in Vanves. Scientists diminished 'scholastic' educational programs time by 26%, supplanting it with physical activities, yet scholarly outcomes did not decline, there were less teach issues, more prominent mindfulness and less nonappearance. Later investigations have discovered improvements for some kids in scholastic execution when time for physical activity is expanded in their school day. A report of three longitudinal examinations accentuates that 'scholarly execution is kept up or even upgraded by an expansion in an understudy's level of constant physical activity, regardless of a decrease in educational programs or extra time for the investigation of scholastic material'.
There is significant confirmation of a positive connection between girls' participation in sports and expert educational esteems, in spite of the fact that, at display, it is hard to recognize relationship and causation. Concentrates from the United States report a large group of empowering discoveries including: girls who take an interest in sports will probably make scholastic progress than the individuals who don't play sports; female secondary school competitors communicated a more prominent enthusiasm for moving on from both secondary school and school; female competitors from ethnic minority bunches detailed better school grades and more noteworthy involvement in additional curricular activities than non-competitors, and now and again are significantly more averse to drop-out from school. Different investigations have recommended that sports participation can help undermine customary gender stereotyping as far as scholastic fitness, by exhibiting a relationship between girls' engagement in sports and enhanced execution in science and arithmetic.

Regenerative Health:
Adolescent pregnancy and sexual sick health are real social issues over the globe. In spite of the fact that there is a deficiency of research here, early examinations led in the US have discovered that youthful girls who take an interest in sports have a tendency to end up plainly sexually dynamic further down the road, have less accomplices, and, when sexually dynamic, make more noteworthy utilization of contraception than non-sporting girls. Undertakings are presently in progress in the creating scene that utilization sports participation as a strategy for empowering girls to maintain a strategic distance from high hazard sexual conduct.
Social Inclusion-Combating social prohibition, or 'the numerous and changing variables bringing about people being barred from the ordinary trades, practices and privileges of current society', has turned into a concentration of consideration for governments and nongovernment associations as of late. A few essayists have contended that sports reflect as well as add to girls' social prohibition in sports and more extensive society. Surely, the strength of sports as socially esteemed physical activities, and the nearby distinguishing proof of sports with manliness, implies that other, non-manly gatherings can move toward becoming pushed to the edges. Be that as it may, positive sports encounters do appear to can possibly, at any rate, add to the procedure of inclusion by: bringing people from an assortment of social and economic foundation together in a common enthusiasm for activities that are intrinsically profitable; offering a feeling of having a place, to a group, a club or a program; giving chances to the development of esteemed capacities and abilities; and expanding 'group capital', by creating social systems, group attachment and urban pride.
Investigations of women's encounters of sports participation have proposed that they can add to a more summed up feeling of empowerment. In numerous settings, youths might be urged to see their bodies as sexual and conceptive assets for men, as opposed to wellsprings of strength for themselves. Physical activities may enable them to build up a feeling of responsibility for bodies and access the sorts of activity encounters generally appreciated by boys. This might be on the grounds that participation augments girls' self-esteem, or on the grounds that being a competitor conveys with it a solid open character. Some female competitors report having a more grounded feeling of character and self-bearing -what Talbot calls 'being herself through sport'. Whatever the reasons, expanding the quantities of girls' taking part in sports and physical activities seems to open up courses through which they can get new group affiliations and start to operate all the more transparently and similarly in group life. In doing as such, girls' participation can test and change social standards about their parts and capacities.

Programme Development:
We noticed that sexist types of physical education themselves can go about as an obstruction to girls' participation, especially in its customary multi-activity, sport-based frame. This type of physical education has been scrutinized by researchers on two vital checks: for repeating customary gender parts, and for neglecting to accomplish the extensive variety of educational advantages regularly guaranteed for it. Over and over again, when calls are made to utilize physical education as a vehicle for the achievement of critical individual and social objectives, the genuine type of projects and adaptability in their arrangement are given little thought (Lawson, 2009).
Building up an option way to deal with conventional physical education, three wide standards can be plot for program development identifying with uniformity of chance, the festival of distinction, and the conceivable outcomes of social change (Flintoff, 2008).
Activity that tries to secure equity of chance for girls to be allowed to take an interest in activities of their own decision, including all activities as of now viewed as just for boys, is a fundamental condition for the empowerment of girls in physical education and sport. Such a guideline affirms, against the organic determinist position, that there are no particularly female natural shortages which keep girls from partaking. In the meantime, as a plenty of research has appeared, uniformity of chance isn't adequate in itself since it won't consequently achieve fair advantages for boys and girls.
Research by Flintoff and Scraton (2006) recommends that it is additionally fitting to make a move went for recognizing and praising distinction, advancing separate types of physical education and sport for girls, for example, indigenous movement structures, high impact exercise and move, where this is esteemed to be suitable to particular social and religious esteems. One ramifications of such an approach is, to the point that it will now and again be more advantageous to offer singlesex programs, and on different events and in different conditions to offer coeducational projects. The exploration on this issue, when directed on an either/or premise, has been not able demonstrate that one approach is superior to the next. In the meantime it is critical, as per Kidd and Donnelly (2000), that young lady just projects have equality of esteem, regardless of whether this implies the unequal appropriation of assets to build up evenhanded conditions (as far as offices, equipment, educators and mentors, and other framework).

Conclusion:-
Today, almost certainly, women partake professionally in basically every significant sport, however the Level of participation normally reduces with regards to the more brutal physical games. More measures should be taken to increment and enhance the participation of women and girls in sports for their better enhancement and empowerment. The current accomplishment of Indian sportswomen in the worldwide sporting field ought to be used as a springboard to advance the practical participation of young ladies in sports. We require more Saina Nehwals and Marry Koms.
The gender value and uniformity to extraordinary degree rely upon the mental strength of the people. In this conclusion separated from determined physical and mental well-being appreciated by physically dynamic girls and women, a well outlined sport and physical activity can give a decent stage to empower positive life changes. The involvement of the women in sport will decrease their pressure and grow more certainty that will consistently raise their certainty. This circumstance needs a decent foundation from the state itself. The averting social and social hindrances remain as a snag in their development situation. That circumstance should change. At that point the women with their soul in sports can be regenerated.
The wellbeing in sports for women is as yet an issue which is being handled with extraordinary imaginative sources of info. In the event that women empowerment needs to take great shape, women ought to be brought out from their kept prohibitive environment and sports can demonstrate a critical basic in empowering women. Government spends parcel of cash on women empowerment and gender value programs.
Sport has generous to empower women both economically and socially. Women don't know about the estimations of the sport to their health; henceforth they are not roused to wander into sporting at singular level, family level into group level, as aftereffect of absence of education. Hegemonic manliness, absence of education, neediness, absence of media scope has developed as the remarkable boundaries to women participation in sport both in towns and rustic territories. Neediness in women groups has made women dormant in sport.