Key Details
The agreement brings school education into India’s broader clean-sport efforts, alongside athlete awareness, testing and enforcement.
Classroom initiative: The Sports and Education Ministries and UNESCO exchanged an MoU to take the Sports Values in Every Classroom Toolkit to students across India.
Teaching material: Video modules will be made available in 13 Indian languages. The toolkit is intended to help teachers explore respect, integrity and fairness through lessons, sport and everyday classroom activities.
Policy context: The initiative aligns with Khelo Bharat Niti 2025, which calls for stronger links between sport and education.
Existing anti-doping work: NADA conducted more than 7,000 tests and over 350 education and awareness sessions, reaching 27,000 participants, during 2025–26.
Clean Sport Education Starts Before Competition
The MoU extends the idea of sporting integrity beyond competitive athletes. Rather than treating clean sport only as a matter of prohibited substances and testing, the toolkit aims to help children practise fairness, respect and following rules in ordinary school settings. Its proposed language coverage could make the material usable across a wider range of classrooms.
Teachers will be central to that effort. The toolkit supplies resources, but its value will depend on whether schools can use them in activities that students recognise—from playing fairly to how they treat classmates.
Classroom Values Complement Anti-Doping Measures
The new classroom initiative sits alongside, rather than replaces, NADA’s existing education and testing work. The Sports Ministry reported substantial testing and awareness activity in 2025–26 and also pointed to supplement-testing facilities intended to reduce inadvertent doping. The MoU is a preventive education step; the release does not set out a school rollout timetable or report changes in student behaviour.
Policy Relevance
Bringing the toolkit into schools creates an opportunity to connect sports participation with everyday conduct, not just knowledge of anti-doping rules. For the Education and Sports Ministries, the practical questions are how teachers will be supported, where the material will fit in school activities, and whether students across languages and regions can use it.
Reach can be tracked through participating schools and teachers. Assessing whether the initiative strengthens sporting behaviour will require more than counting toolkit distribution or video views.
Relevant Question for Policy Stakeholders: How will schools use the toolkit in regular activities, and what evidence would show that students are practising its values rather than merely recognising them?
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