well by heart I was not against the motion but I was told to oppose the motion.
Good evening,
coming straight to the motion and against the motion "should hockey-India's national game be privatized?" my answer is no.
Through the ironic effort out of the white men's burden ,India and pakistan were the two countries where this game flourished ,nurtured ans soon mesmerized the city with its aura.
Today it is in a baffling state,passing through the phase of saturation,but privatization is not the gate way to perfection.
Privatization leads to shift of power to an approximate autonomy.An option to privatize indian hockey will surely mean that a sport of national importance is being converted to an entrepreural venture, that in turn gets inclined towards leeching profits.And hence the power of people and its representatives to check and crosscheck the system will be lost for ever.
An option to privatize Indian hockey may cleave its way to professional restructure and resettlements.This may lead to cut short in the number of people employed with Hockey India and IHF.
It may lead to biased selection procedure of curators, workers and officials.
There is an obvious chance that privatization will lead to packaging of hockey.Following the theme line of crony capitalistic Indian Primiar League(ipl) they may come out with some hockey premiar league.
70 minutes of game,70 minutes of glamour,suspense prevailing bets,suspense prevailing fixes,overnight parties and all will finally end up with a tired ,fatigued ,soulless, and contrived culture.Gluing advertisements will redraft the hockey lexicon.Today they renamed six as the DLF MAXIMUM ,tomorrow they will rename penalty corner to reliance corner.
Need of the hour is inception of this game at school,at college and at university level.Need of the hour is a hockey stick in every gully,every street,every corner.This can be achieved through better and strategic governance and not privatization.If a country can afford a 2G scam of 176000 crore as a shameful yet sophisticated symptom of privatization in mobile telephony,why can't it afford $75000 synthetic hockey turfs,qualified coaches!
It is spirit and enthusiasm within the game that matters.It is spirit that binds the nation to an anthem,to a tricolour,to a pride.Privatization will lead to partisanship of unified sports culture. and hence a loss in chauvinist flavor,an intentional curb to the feelings of Indianness ,loss of audience and loss of faith.
And far from the least there is a metaphore of life.
What is privatization? there is one perspective ..
privatization is when you put a child of 6 or 7 year age in boarding school with a hope that your investment in his education will get capitalized in a long run.And at the end of the day the child looses his vigour ,love and respect towards family.
Hockey is our country's sportive passionate and strategic brain child.hockey is a thread of unanimous integrity.
Don't make it a capitalized child.
thank you..thank you very much.
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