Adventure Sports can Play Significant Role in Building Youth character: LT. Gen GL Bakshi

National Adventure Foundation (NAF) organised a seminar cum workshop on ‘Role of adventure sports in building character among youth’. The seminar cum workshop was sponsored by Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India. The chief Guest on the occasion was Sh Ram Niwas, IAS, FC cum Principal Secretary to Govt. of Haryana. Present on the occasion were President NAF, Lt. Gen GL Bakshi, PVMC (Retd.) and Brig. Ravi Kumar (Retd.), Executive Director NAF-HQ and renowned tracker Sh Avinash Deoskar.  Large number of youth from the area attended the seminar.

Dr. Gulshan Sharma, president NIMA and executive director of ITFT welcomed the guests and initiated the discussion. He said that he is ever ready to support these kind of activates where youth develop some skills and become spirited to serve the nation.

Speaking on the occasion, Sh Ram Niwas said that adventure is necessary part of education to develop all round personality of the youth. Sh Ram Niwas, who is an avid lover of adventure sports and tourism, while relating many adventure places in the world said that ‘India is a complete package where all sorts of locations are available to undertake complete range of adventures sports that take place in air, land, and water, such as bungee jumping, gliding, hang gliding, rock climbing and river rafting’. Youth adventure like hiking and tracking make youth more confident, he added.

Lt. Gen GL Bakshi  said that National Adventure Foundation (NAF), as an NGO is performing a ‘community service’ oriented role in promoting Adventure activities among the youth, particularly those hailing from the under privileged sections of society. He said that the role of NAF is not to make champions in adventure sports; rather the organization encourages youth to take initiatives in undertaking any sort of adventure to overcome their fears to face various challenges of life.

Lt Col YPS Dahiya (Retd.), Director NAF Chapter of Chandigarh, Punjab and Haryana displayed a film on adventure sports and thanked ITFT College to provide the venue and made arrangement for the success of seminar and workshop. The Seminar was followed by demonstration of various adventure activities. Tomorrow, a field workshop on adventure activities and practice will be held at the same venue.