Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG), formerly Khelo India School Games (KISG), are the annual national level multidisciplinary grassroot games in

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held in January or February for two categories, namely under-17 years school students and under-21 college students. Every year best 1,000 kids will be given an annual scholarship of for 8 years to prepare them for the international sporting events.Sport minister Rathore hails Khelo India School Games
Business Standard, 8 Feb 2018. The Training of Trainers (TOT) Programme was held in December 2018- January 2019 in the first phase. Here total of 160 trainers will be trained in 4 batches of 40 each in December-January period. This TOT Programme will be carried out semi-annually or quarterly to include all the interested teachers, principals, vice-principals and physical education trainers.

History

On 31 January 2018,

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Narendra Modi Narendra Damodardas Modi (; born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament from ...

, inaugurated Khelo India School Games at the opening ceremony based on

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held at

Indira Gandhi Arena The K. D. Jadhav Indoor Hall, formerly known as the Indraprashtha Stadium and Indira Gandhi Arena (officially Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium), is located at the Indraprastha Estate in the eastern region of New Delhi. It is the largest indoor sp ...

.PM Modi launches Khelo India School Games
Times of India, 31 Jan 2018.Khelo India School Games in December
The Hindu, 6 Nov 2017. from the 2019 events, Khelo India School Games were renamed to Khelo India Youth Games after

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came on board earlier in September 2018.Khelo India to become Khelo India Youth Games with IOA on board
Times of India, 13 Sept 2018. The second edition of the event was kicked off in

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, a sports complex situated in

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, by Sports Minister,

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, and, Chief Minister of Maharashtra,

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. On 27 February 2019, PM

launched the Khelo India App at the Youth Indian Parliament in Vigyan Bhawan,

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to promote sports and fitness. On 22 February 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the first edition of the

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. The inaugural edition held in Odisha started on 22 February and concluded on 1 March 2 ...

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to give athletes the exposure of multi-disciplinary events at the university level.

Games and Medals

The inaugural 2018 games had students competing for 209 gold medals across 17 sports.

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basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

(26 gold medals),

gymnastics Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shou ...

(20 gold medals),

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(16 gold medals),

kabaddi Kabaddi is a contact team sport. Played between two teams of seven players, the objective of the game is for a single player on offence, referred to as a "raider", to run into the opposing team's half of the court, touch out as many of their ...

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

and

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(30 gold medals) were held at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium Complex.

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(36 gold medals),

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

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and

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(16 gold medals) were held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.

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at the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Swimming Complex (35 gold medals), hockey at the

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and shooting at the

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were other venues. In December 2020 four indigenous games were added –

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and

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Execution

Selection criteria

Only selected school kids below the age of 17 years are eligible to compete. In the individual sports, top 8 sportsperson from the School Games Federation of India's National School Games, 4 nominations from federation, one from

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, one from the host State and 2 wild card entries for the individual events will be selected. In team sports, the top 4 from the National School Games, 2 nominations by the federation, 1 from the host State and one from the organising committee will be selected. For archery, badminton and shooting, the top 16 from the National School Games, 8 nominations by the federation, 1 from CBSE, 1 from host State, 1 from organising committee, and 6 from wild cards will be selected.

Talent hunt and scholarship

To identify the talent at grassroot level, each sports has a dedicated talent hunt committee, who will identify top 2 sportsperson for each sports and they will be given an annual scholarship of INR 500,000 for 8 years.Is Khelo India School Games a success? Shocking revelations here
Financial Express, 7 Feb 2018.

Edition-wise Medal Tally

(T - Total medals won, G - Gold won, S - Silver won, B - Bronze won)

References

External links

Khelo India
official website {{Government schemes in India Multi-sport events in India *

2018 establishments in India Sport in India Khelo India