PANJIM: Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi digitally launched the Reliance Foundation Youth Sports (RFYS) initiative pan India and kicked off multi-city, multi-sports school and college sports competition, recently.
As part of the digital launch of RFYS initiative, Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with Founder and Chairperson, Reliance Foundation Nita Ambani, and Honorable Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Vijay Goel, were connected from New Delhi through live broadcast, simultaneously to eight sports grounds at Kochi, Chennai, Goa, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Guwahati and Pune.
For the inaugural year, RFYS will have football competitions in these eight cities competing in four categories i.e. Junior Boys (Grade 7 – 10); Senior Boys (Grade 11 – 12); Senior Girls (Grade 11 – 12 ) and College Boys (Graduate institutes).
In first year of its launch, over 2 million youths will be reached through 2000 school and college institutes and 40,000 students expected to participate from these eight cities. Participating teams across categories will compete in city qualifiers beginning August 2016, followed by City Championships in October/November and finals to be played in January/February 2017.
By year 3 (2018-19) the competition is expected to be played in 32 plus cities and year 5 (2020-21), the RFYS will spread to over 50 cities.
From second year (2017-18) onwards, Reliance Foundation Youth Sports plans to add multi- discipline sports. RFYS will cover 16 cities, 4000 institutions.
