Indian football team skipper Sunil Chhetri believes that the education sector can play a 'crucial role' in promoting sports in the country and schools must encourage sports and fitness among students. Addressing a session on 'Re-Setting the Sports Ecosystem: Opportunities in The New Normal World' at FICCI FRAMES, Chhetri said, "The education sector can play a crucial role in promoting sports in India. We must promote sports culture at the grassroot level and schools must encourage sports and fitness among students by making sports facilities available and dedicating more time during the school-day to sporting activities instead of treating it as a customary exercise."

Women's cricket team's Mithali Raj, who was also a part of the session, feels that women's cricket can "re-build quickly" from this coronavirus pandemic despite admitting the impact of the crisis. "Unfortunately, women's Cricket may have been set back by a couple of years by this pandemic as some of the momentum that had been built between India's success in World Cup 2017 and World T20 2020 has been lost. However, we have had discussions with BCCI to draw up a firm calendar for the Indian women's team so that fans can regularly cheer for the team," Raj said.