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.Youth can make sports as a means of finding employment & career base. It gives them a platform to develop their aptitudes ( Stephen Robson -Strategic sports development , Route ledge , 2013). Youth can find opportunities as coaches. medical advisers, psycho therapists, psycho analysts , physical instructors, hygiene experts trainers yoga guides, sport reporters , sports journalists , indoor /outdoor sports specialists, individual sports mentors , sports professionals sports counselors , sports authority masters, personal trainers for celebrities , gym owners , private sports club entrepreneurs , sporting event managers, sports meets managers, sports funding agents, sports article vendor , sports uniform maker, personal dieticians, nutrition experts, nutrition supplements / health drink producer „ energy drink producer etc

Helps in career making- They can become best examples of career makers. They become role models in future .Sports can play a role of a master in guiding the community towards uniqueness & exceptionality. It enhances the chances of people to promote community adventure sporting in cycling, swimming ,running , sprinting boat riding , jumping , skating , girdling , whipping , jumping. thumping , skipping , hammering , pounding , archery , aquatics , equestrian events , animal polo ,mud racing ,cross country races , rock climbing , trekking , hiking , ice climbing , mountaineering ,trumpeting , Marble Sporting , reverse walking , swift walking ,rope walking , pole twining , swinging . pole tilting , etc

Helps to promote healthy habits- Sports as an alternative education system solves the health issues of the youth involved in it. It gives them good healthy habits. Today's youth are suffering from drug addiction , alcohol obsession , pre marital sexual passion etc . They are becoming vulnerable to several high risk diseases. Sport can involve them in their best capacities & they can march towards demonstrating their best skills with good habitual tendencies.

Helps in inclusive growth of community - sports as an alternative education helps to inculcate best community practices as it ensures equity of involvement in learning, delivering & empowering the tribal minority & socially excluded communities with access & fairness. It supports the deprived communities to empower themselves through alternate education.

Helps in capacity building - Sports if taken as an alternate source of education enhances their competitive spirit as it helps to build capacity. Aptitude sports skills can be learnt through sporting seminars, trainings, orientations, symposiums, conferences & collective training camps. It transforms a regular youth into a responsible collective discussion group. They learn team spirit , leadership qualities, competence & fortitude.

Helps to build awareness - Sports if taken as an alternate source of education helps to get awareness about social concerns such as environmental, hygienic, ethnic, societal, cultural, and intellectual & health issues as community understands the importance of sports as an agent of ensuring health & fitness. It enhances vigor, health consciousness ,diet awareness , nutrition supplements awareness , nourishment awareness etc It can also promote alternate education system to find bright career options within a community.

POSITIVE IMPACT ON CHILDREN

Children who participate actively in every sporting event will be benefited as sports bring in lot of joy of participation. As they grow up they can be attracted to take up sports as a career. To give e good beginning , sport as an alternative education. enhances their knowledge about the community involvement & instills asense of delight in practicing them. ( Stephen Robson -Strategic sports development , Route ledge , 2013).This helps them to visualize good & healthy practices for the sake of community as well as self. Community will be naturally refined with the vigorous & sophisticated thoughts of this young generation. It brings in a sense of support , security feeling & protection for them. (Santhi N. and Rajesh Kumar S. (2011), Entrepreneurship Challenges and Opportunities in India).

POSITIVE IMPACT ON PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

Sports as an alternative education system promotes voluntary involvement as people take supportive participation in becoming an integral part of it. The communities take organizational involvement such as the whole process of learning through sporting education calls for several components working together with mutual consultation ( Stephen Robson -Strategic sports development , Route ledge , 2013).This desires understanding of the community interests as entire community engage in comprehending the immediate requirements of taking up sports as an alternative source of education.(Santhi N. and Rajesh Kumar S. (2011), Entrepreneurship Challenges and Opportunities in India).

POSITIVE IMPACT ON WOMEN

Sports as an alternative source of education promotes inclusive growth for women . They can learn various attributes of community living through sports & take up as an educational course. Sitting at home they can learn new aptitudes .Gender equity is thus enabled. they can participate in sport activity with & entertain themselves with participation. It promotes self esteem & personal achievement for women who are always burdened with domestic work.. This helps them to visualize good & healthy practices for the sake of community & they instill the same to their children.

POSTIVE IMPACT ON EMPLOYMENT GENERATION-

It can prove as a ground for future coaches & players practioners in rural / urban / tribal / remote areas. It helps in contributing new thoughts & opens avenues for furthering sport skills. It can become a superlative practice later on. ( Santhi N. and Rajesh Kumar S.(2011), Entrepreneurship Challenges and Opportunities in India). It promotes application f practical skill as it enables individual competency, team building & personality building which helps in empowerment of community with affirmative attitudes.( Report Of The Sports Authority In India - Ministry Of Youth Affairs & Sports 2013).

CONCLUSION

Thus sports as an alternate education can deviate the entire community towards good healthy practices & foster community development. But the idea has to become popular in India where sports as is not very popular & people still visualize sports as supplementary part of traditional education. Sport can make a career for everybody in the community only its preliminary significance has to be comprehended at the beginning stage. Sports can be a media for development of a community has been proved by western countries . In India too it can unite them into an integral part of a community by furthering their brotherhood bondage. the linkages for making sports as an agent of social cultural development & a strong media for community empowerment is what is needed today.

REFERENCES -

Desai & others -India Human Development in India challenges for a society in transition 2010 New Delhi Oxford university press

Report Of The Sports Authority In India - Ministry Of Youth Affairs & Sports 2012

Report Of The Sports Authority In India - Ministry Of Youth Affairs & Sports 2011 5. Report Of The Sports Authority In India - Ministry Of Youth Affairs & Sports 2010 6. Report Of The Sports Authority In India - Ministry Of Youth Affairs & Sports 2009

Stephen Robson-Strategic sports development , Route ledge , 2013

Santhi N. and Rajesh Kumar S. (2011), Entrepreneurship Challenges and Opportunities in India, Bonfring International Journal of Industrial Engineering and-Management Science, Vol. 1, Special Issue, December.

 

THE ROLE OF NGOs IN THE EMPOWERMENT OF TRIBAL COMMUNITY IN BILIGIRIRANGANA BETTA- ASTUDY OF VIVEKANANDA GIRIJANA KENDRA

RADHA. M.S

Assistant Professor, S.B.R.R. Mahajana First Grade College Jayalakshmipuram, Mysore

ABSTRACT

This paper shall to endevour to a paper discuss the contribution of NGO’s towards the empowerment of Tribal Community in BiligiriranganaBetta ( B.R. Hills). It illustrates some of the significant functions and programmes of NGO’s in the upliftment of Tribal Community in B.R. Hills. The area of field study is located in and around BiligiriRangaSwamy Temple ( BRT) wild life sanctuary which is the home of an aboriginal tribe Soliga. The terrain is highly undulating with attitude ranging from 600 meters to 1800 metes above mean sea level. In the deep forest of B R H hills where the western and eastern ghats forests meet in Southern Karnataka. The soligas a semi nomadic tribe have lived for ages in the deep forest. The hilly forest belt accounts for the presence of four major tibal groups consisting of JenuKurabas, KaduKurubas, Yeravas and Soligas. Tribal people over the centuries have become one of the most disadvantaged, exploited and neglected social groups in our country. They are subject to the problem of uprooting and displacement because their forest habitations have been declared wild life reserves and sanctuaries and they have been resettled in colonies in the fringes of the forest. There is a Socio environmental revolution brewing at the heart of B.R. Hills. Once socially backward and exploited Soligas the indigenous people in this region are today running successful business enterprises with the declaration of the area. The traditional home of the Soligas as the Biligirirangantempe (BRT) wild life sanctuary in 1974 shifting agriculture and hunting were completely banned by the government. The work in B.R Hills of Karnataka by a young dedicated doctor Dr. Sudarshan a Medical doctor on the primary health care at the Saligas Tribes is an unique example of the role of equity, social justice, maximum community participation. It is a successful role model for similar geo-social settings in our state and country. The work includes empowerment of the Soligas. VGKK ( Vivekananda GirijanaKayana Kendra) work in the field of health and education is an illustrated example of self empowerment of tribal community in B.R. Hills. The level of literacy is undoubtedly one of the most important indicators of social cultural and health development among the tribal communities. There was hardly any awareness among the Saligas about the modern system of education and health . The aim of the present paper examines the role of NGO,s in empowering tribal community in B.R. Hills. The core involves identifying the issues, role of NGO and the effect in all relevant dimensions.

INTRODUCTION:

The Biligirirangan hills, commonly called B.R. hills, is a hill range situated in South-Eastern Karnataka, as its border Tamil-Nadu (Erode District) in south India. The area is called Biligiriranga Swamy Temple wildlife Sanctuary or simply BRT wildlife Sanctuary. It is a protected reserve under the wildlife protection act of 1972. Being at the confluence of the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats, the sanctuary is home to eco systems for both the mountain ranges. The site was declared a Tiger Reserve in December 2010.

The hills are in the Yelandur and Kollegala Taluk of Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka. The hills are contiguous with the Sathyamangalam wild life Sanctuary to the south, in the Erode District of Tamil Nadu. The range of the hill is 90 kilometers (56 ml) from Mysore and 160 kilometers (99 ml) from Bangalore. The hills are located at the Eastern most edge of the Western Ghats and support diverse flora and fauna in view of the varies habitat types supported. A wildlife sanctuary of 3,224 square kilometers (124.5 sq. m) was created around the temple on June 27 – 1974 and enlarged to 540 sq. K.m (208.31 sq. ml) on January 14-1987. The sanctuary derives its name Biligiri from the white rock face that constitutes the major hill crowned with the temple of Lord Ranga Swamy.

The big Michelia Champaka known as “Dodda sampige” in the holiest For the soliga tribe in Biligiri Ranga Swamy Temple (BRT) wildlife sanctuary in Chamarajanagar district. Doddasampige a sacred grove revered by the soligas.

The forest area is a home for many medicinal and other endemic species. The scrub vegetation type of forest is a home for “Adina Cordifolia”, “Zizyplus”, “Santalum album”, “Accacia sps”. The semi evergreen forests which includes Michelia champaca and Bombax Celiba. The BRT witness for 79 species of woods. Variety of orchids are also present in the sanctuary. The soliga tribes are accustomised to use more than 300 herbs for the treatment of various ailments. There are 140 families of plants in the hills. The BR hills links the Eastern Ghats and the Western Ghats allowing animals to move between them and facilitating gene flow between population of species in these areas, this sanctuary serves as an important biological bridge for the biota of the entire Deccan plateau.

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