Ethic Sports Foundation

While millions of Indians rejoice the very few achievements of our fellow Indians in Hockey, Wrestling, Boxing, Badminton, Shooting, Weightlifting and other sporting disciplines at the Olympics or any other international event, it is a fact that Indians have much more potential in them which can only be uncovered with proper mapping of resources. Background: "India lives in villages" were the golden words of Mahatma Gandhi many decades ago. Ironically after almost 50 years the data does not seem to disagree. Today a majority of the Indian population still live in the villages. Though there is substantial migration from rural to urban areas in India, still almost 68% of India continues to live in rural areas. The socio-economic census data (2011) released very recently said that almost 73% of the households were in rural areas. On the contrary, India's vision today is highly urban centric. Cities are tipped to be the catalysts of growth in the future. Since India's Independence, Urban & Rural difference has been one such major obstacle in growth. While the urban areas with all the amenities getting richer contributing more to India's GDP, the rural areas who often depends on agriculture fall behind, due to the absence of the required amenities. With the vision of Building India through Sports, Ethic Sports Foundation, a non-profit organization led by the master coaches Omkarnath Yadav (former national boxing coach), SM Arif (Padmashri & Dronacharya awardee, former national chief badminton coach), N. Brijkishore (National Gymnastics Coach), Dharmendra Singh (Olympian, Arjuna Awardee & National Boxing Coach) who've been struggling to find the right talent, the right resources have come forward to connect all the dots and build India through sports with Quality Education (Skill Development), Good Health and Well Being, Rural Infrastructure Development, Poverty Alleviation as its key development goals.