Jammu– The Department of Youth Services and Sports on Wednesday released its Calendar of Activities for the year 2025-26. In a press note, DYSS said the calendar’s major focus in on fairness and transparency in the selection of players/teams.
As per the Calendar, 40 observers would be nominated with two from each district before the conduct of the tournaments to make the officials involved in the activities answerable.
Commissioner/Secretary DYSS, Sarmad Hafeez and Director General DYSS Rajinder Singh Tara said the emphasis has been given to disclose the selection lists on the spot at the venues itself.
“Moreover, to avoid any conflict of interest, it has also been decided that the officials whose wards will be in the fray will never figure in the selection panel,” Hafeez said.
With an aim to popularize all the 34 sports disciplines, 201 events of which are being organised by the DYSS for making the teams to represent J&K in the National School Games.
Refresher Courses in the disciplines of Fencing, Boxing and other sports disciplines have been kept in the Calendar of Activities to help the officials acquire complete knowledge of the games.
According to the new Calendar, sports activities as usual will begin at the grassroots level with intra-murals and will be followed by inter-schools, inter-zones, inter-districts, inter-divisions and then Inter-State at the national scene.
“Three member selection committees will be framed to pick the teams in various sports disciplines and the committees will be separate in each age group of a particular sports discipline. The provision of videography has also been kept in the Calendar,” said Tara.
A Coaching Camp of minimum five days has been kept for training district/division teams, while a Coaching Camp of minimum 10 days has been kept for training the State/UT team.
Further, the Joint Directors of twin divisions and the DYSS Officers have been asked to maintain the record of Selection Lists, Score Sheets, Match Fixtures, Movement Orders and Eligibilities.
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