Government to launch fitness app in January next year: Sports Secretary Ravi Mittal

Sports Secretary Ravi Mittal on Saturday stated the federal government is planning to launch an software in January subsequent 12 months to assist individuals test and enhance their health stage.

“We are developing a fit India app next year, It will be like other health app but the main thing will be that everyone will be able to evaluate their fitness,” Mittal stated throughout Airtel Delhi Half Marathon press convention.

“We will be launching this app sometime in January. I would like to request all the participants in the event to come to this app and check their fitness. If you check your fitness every month, it will improve your fitness.” Some of the world’s prime runners, together with defending champions Ethiopia’s Andamlak Belihu and Tsehay Gemechu, will participate within the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon, one of many first international sporting occasions to be hosted by India in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Extending his greatest needs to the occasion, Mittal stated: “Events like this will help us to understand that things are slowly getting normal, if we have to win medals in Olympics, we have to change ourselves, how long can we stop ourselves for COVID. So these events will help in strengthening our mind. I would like to request procam to organise more such marathons before the Olympics, so we can strengthen he mind. We can sponsor them if necessary, fund will not be a problem.”

Athletics Federation of India (AFI) president Adille Sumariwalla stated ADHM goes to be the “launch of Indian athletics towards the Olympic games. This is the first event happening in India, we have been under shutdown. The athletes are rearing to go, for the athletes they can’t just be training, they have to compete. So it will be a starting point,” he stated.

“From April onwards there was a blackout period, that gets over now. This is the resurgence of athletes, resurgence of sports, there are some top class runners who are coming, as sports person, we like to take on the challenge, we will compete, and come on top,” he added.

The worldwide and Indian elite runners will probably be firstly line on the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium right here, whereas the amateurs from throughout the globe will be part of them by way of the unique Airtel Delhi Half Marathon Mobile App.