WHAT IS OIOG?

OIOG is a sports broadbasing and development program mainly aimed at increasing participant base and improving the business of sports.

The UN recognises sports as a cost-effective and indispensable facilitator of achieving and promoting sustainable development. It promotes the use of sports as a tool to inculcate important societal values like respecting rules and other individuals, camaraderie, leadership skills, discipline, hospitableness and empathy in youth and to channel their energy fruitfully.

Encouraging a healthy lifestyle, gender equality, decision making and social inclusion of persons with disabilities and, lifting sportspersons out of poverty are among the other benefits of sports listed by the agency.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has termed sports as an acronym for skill, perseverance, optimism, resilience, tenacity and stamina. Sports helps youngsters become strong individuals and promotes national integration, according to Mr Modi. STAIRS is committed to promoting sports to empower the youth and contribute to Prime Minister Modi's drive to make India a global economic and sports powerhouse.