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GAME, SET, MATCH: PM MODI’S KHELO

INDIA MANTRA IS DOING WONDERS

competitions, Khelo India Youth
Games has been a successful
project. Every year, around 10,000
athletes from all 36 States and
UTs now participate in the annual
Khelo India Youth Games and
Khelo India University Games.
Of them, 2,500 athletes across
disciplines are provided with
scholarship which helps them to
Anurag Singh Thakur further their sports careers. Young
Union Minister for Indians from disadvantaged
families get an advantage
Youth Affairs & Sports,
and Information & Broadcasting

Inaugurating the first Khelo India
Youth Games in 2018, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi had
stressed, “Khelo India is not only
about winning medals. It is an
effort to give strength to a mass
movement for playing more.”
Four years later, we find that this
statement by the visionary leader
has become the foundational
belief of India’s sports ecosystem.
Conceived as a national platform
that would give youngsters across
India a chance to showcase
their sporting talent and, in turn,
get selected to be nurtured for
participating in higher levels
of national and international

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