Pariksha SaathiSports and Education Ministries exchange an MoU with UNESCO to take clean sport values to classrooms through the 'Sports Values in Every Classroom Toolkit'
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, the Ministry of Education and UNESCO exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Wednesday, 28 October 2026, to take clean sport values to classrooms across India through the 'Sports Values in Every Classroom Toolkit', as Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Dr Mansukh Mandaviya and Union Education Minister Pralhad Joshi reaffirmed the need to integrate sports and education, which is also highlighted in the Khelo Bharat Niti 2025. The MoU was exchanged at the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) India's Clean Sport Conclave. The initiative aims to embed values such as respect, integrity and fairness in children through education, sports and everyday classroom activities, and the toolkit's video modules will be made available in 13 Indian languages. Dr Tim Curtis, Director of UNESCO's Regional Office for South Asia, described the MoU as a new chapter in UNESCO's partnership with India. Dr Mandaviya said that during 2025-26 NADA conducted over 7,000 tests and more than 350 education and awareness sessions, reaching 27,000 participants; that supplement testing facilities at the National Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar, and the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Hyderabad, help prevent cases of inadvertent doping; that the National Anti-Doping Act came into force this year; and that the government is preparing to bring provisions for the criminalisation of doping-related activities before Parliament. Pralhad Joshi said the MoU would help address the longstanding gap between education and sports.
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Learning context
In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, published by PIB on 5 December 2025, Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Dr Mansukh Mandaviya said that the National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) had increased its testing capacity considerably: 7751 dope control tests were planned in the current year, compared with 7474 tests in 2024 and 5794 tests in 2023. The Government had recently launched a web portal, the NADA India Data Administration and Management System (NIDAMS), to digitalise the planning of athlete testing, mission order generation and the availability of Doping Control Officers (DCOs), and to improve transparency, accountability and efficiency in sample collection in compliance with the WADA International Standards. NADA's initiatives include nationwide education programmes for athletes, coaches, trainers and medical staff on the dangers of doping, prohibited substances, therapeutic use exemptions (TUE), supplements and whereabouts compliance; anti-doping booths and education at major events; in-competition and out-of-competition testing, with high-performance athletes included in Registered Testing Pools (RTP); and social media campaigns promoting the 'Know Your Medicine' (KYM) app and ADEL to help athletes identify prohibited substances and prevent inadvertent doping violations. NADA's mandate covers the entire country under the framework of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code.
Check yourself: how many dope control tests had NADA planned for the year of this reply, compared with 2024 and 2023, and what is NIDAMS?
7751, against 7474 in 2024 and 5794 in 2023; the NADA India Data Administration and Management System, a web portal to digitalise the planning of athlete testing.
Revision task: from this release, note who exchanged the MoU and where, the toolkit's name, the values it covers and the number of languages, and NADA's 2025-26 testing and awareness figures; from the note, NADA's planned and past test numbers, the NIDAMS portal and the KYM app.
Test yourself
In how many Indian languages will the video modules of the 'Sports Values in Every Classroom Toolkit', covered by the MoU among the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, the Ministry of Education and UNESCO, be made available?
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Answer: 13
The release says the toolkit's video modules will be made available in 13 Indian languages, with the objective of reaching students across the country; the initiative aims to embed values such as respect, integrity and fairness in children. The MoU was exchanged at NADA India's Clean Sport Conclave on 28 October 2026.
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