First-ever Khelo India University Games
The first-ever Khelo India University Games will take off in Odisha.
About it
- It is an aspirational competition for India’s youngsters to help them find a balance between sport and education.
- It is the largest ever competition held at the university level in India and will have about 3500 athletes from over 150 universities across the country taking part in it.
- There will be a total of 17 sports namely archery, athletics, boxing, fencing, judo, swimming, weightlifting, wrestling, badminton, basketball, football, hockey, table tennis, tennis, volleyball, rugby, and kabaddi.
About Khelo India program
Introduced to revive the sports culture in India at the grass-root level by building a strong framework for all sports played in the country and establish India as a great sporting nation.
- It is implemented by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
- Under the scheme, the talented players identified in priority sports disciplines at various levels will be provided annual financial assistance of INR 5 lakh per annum for 8 years.
It will be a Central Sector Scheme (Scheme implemented by the Central Government machinery and 100% funding by the union government).
Source: PIB
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