Section 120 in Tamil Nadu Educational Inspection Code
120. Play days and Play festivals.
- The inter-school games and athletic competitions that were being formerly conducted in elementary schools have been replaced by play days and play festivals. Their main feature is the conduct of organised games of the free-play type which involve on competition, folk dances, and other types of activities which all the children assembled from the neighbouring schools take part at the same time. The whole day is devoted to the "play day" while the "play festival" does not last for more than a couple of hours. There is no individual competitive element in the programme and no individual prizes are given.The play day and play festival should, apart from their educative value, be regarded as a means of promoting interest on the part of villagers to identify themselves in the activities of schools.
