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First-ever Khelo India University Games
What to study?
For Prelims: Location of university, about Khelo India programme.
For Mains: Need for attention on this, other measures necessary.
Context: The first-ever Khelo India University Games will take off in Odisha.
What is it?
- It is an aspirational competition for India’s youngsters with the objective of helping them find the 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 programme:
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).
Sources: pib.