Why India is lagging in sports?

Answer 1

India is incredible. Being the second populous nation in the world , the greatest strenght of India is man power. Besides this credit India is still lagging in sports.

• being a developing country, India has nearly half of it's population below poverty line. And most llive in remote areas. These people are unaware of sports and its important.
• Indian parents always their childrens to be doctors ,engineers an so on . So never allow their childre to get familiar to sports.
• People nowadays have a great sense of job security. they want to be government employees any way. In India sports lack that.
• Indians hesitate to take sorts as their profession because of the resons given above.
• The educational instituitions are not only shaping the children but also the nations. The social life of every child starts from school. In schools more important to education rather than to sports. Some teachers and parents discourage the growing sportsmen
• Political influence plays an important role in selecting players.

It is because of these reasons IndiAa is lagging on sports.