new delhi the sports authority of india sai in association with education boards cisce and cbse will host an online program for training of physical education pe teachers from cisce schools on khelo india fitness assessment of school going childrenstarting from friday the programme will target 7500 participants across 2615 cisce schools in two zones this largescale training is being organized to assess the fitness levels of the school children and to identify potential future champions from a vast pool of grassroots talentthis training has been undertaken owing to the coronavirus outbreak where schools have been shut and the new academic session has begun across india in the form of online classes or webinars in this current situation trainingoftrainers tots in their original format and physical assessments of students in schools could not be conducted till children and teachers start going back to schools againvarious school principals or head of institutes on friday will be encouraged and motivated and made aware about the need to empower their pe teachers with knowledge attitude and skills for undertaking the khelo india fitness assessment through the khelo india mobile app kima besides giving them goals for 202021 this session is titled whole school approach to fitnessfrom august 11 to 14 training and technical knowhow of the assessor mobile app will be provided to the school pe teachers they will be given sessions on the introduction to khelo india fitness for school going children and fit india how to undertake khelo india battery of tests the khelo india assessments protocols talent identification roadmap goals for 202021 and morethe training will be provided by selected master trainers who had conducted various national and regional level tots both offline and online in 2019 and conducted assessment of their schools