Impact of sports among slum dwellers and the choices, perceptions and crisis of the younger generation to be a sportsperson, belongs to sitakundu slum area of south 24 parganas, west Bengal, India: a proposal

Sports have been one of the greatest forms of profession and income throughout the years. Sportspersons are regarded as one of the most loved and respected members of society around the world. In India and in West Bengal, many children tend to participate in sports and take it up as a career. Great achievement on the field of sports can help them become youth icons for the nation and achieve popularity and for some may transpire into lucrative jobs, especially in government posts, for these young people. The research proposal is intended to get an understanding about how young boys and girls of slum area get interested in sports, what they do to achieving their dreams of becoming sportspersons. The study further tries to define the versions and voices of the parents as the supportive one in reference to their children. The project proposal needs almost six months ethnographic research to unfold the reasons and importance of choosing sport as profession and any crisis during taking up sports as profession. The methodology shall involve ethnography with detailed interviews and interaction with these young minds, in a semi-structured pattern, and an in-depth analysis of the data collected for understand the present scenario of the slum area by means of sport.