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Khelo India: National Programme for Development of Sports, branded as Khelo India (transl. Play India), aims at improving India's sports culture at the grass-root level through organized talent identification, structured sporting competitions and infrastructure development. [1]
On 31 January 2018, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, inaugurated Khelo India School Games at the opening ceremony based on Guru–shishya tradition held at Indira Gandhi Arena. [2] [3] from the 2019 events, Khelo India School Games were renamed to Khelo India Youth Games after Indian Olympic Association came on board earlier in September 2018. [4]
The Khelo India Para Games (KIPG) are an annual sports event under the Khelo India initiative for disabled athletes. [1] [2] [3] [4]The inaugural KIPG was scheduled to happen in 2018, but did not take place, with Khelo India instead backing a separate competition called the Indian Open Para-Athletics Championship, which was held in Bengaluru. [5]
Khelo India University Games (KIUG) is a national level multi-sport event held in India, where athletes from universities across the country compete in different sports disciplines. [1] The inaugural edition held in Odisha started on 22 February and concluded on 1 March 2020. [ 2 ]
Khelo India Winter Games (KIWG) are the national level multidisciplinary grassroot winter games of India. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Events include skiing , alpine skiing , nordic skiing , snow rugby , Ice stock sport , snow baseball , mountaineering , snowshoe running , ice hockey , figure skating and speed skating . [ 3 ]
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Khelo India is an initiative of the Indian government to organise sports competitions across the nation. Both Khelo India and the National Games of India include several indigenous sports. [57] [58] [59] [9] In post-Independent India, the traditional sports' popularity has greatly declined with the further growth of Western sports and online ...
The third Khelo India Youth Games was held from 10 January 2020 and 22 January 2020 in Guwahati, Assam, India. [1] The event witnessed 20 national level multidisciplinary grassroots games to get played among the age groups of under-17 and under-21 categories.