The following version of the Khelo India Youth Video games will likely be held in Madhya Pradesh in January-February 2023, it was formally introduced by Union of Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports activities Anurag Singh Thakur on Thursday.
The venue for the Video games was formally introduced within the presence of Chief Minister of MP, Shivraj Singh Chouhan. The sports activities competitors is scheduled to start out on January 31, 2023 and finish on February 11.
Additionally current on the occasion on Thursday afternoon was the Union Minister of State, Ministry of Residence Affairs and Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports activities, Nisith Pramanik, Minister of Sports activities and Youth Welfare, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh, Yashodhara Raje Scindia, Secretary Sports activities, Sujata Chaturvedi, Director Common, Sports activities Authority of India, Sandip Pradhan, and different dignitaries from the Union Sports activities Ministry and the Sports activities Authority of India.
The upcoming version of the Khelo India Youth Video games will function a complete of 27 disciplines; with water sports activities being included for the primary time within the historical past of the video games. New disciplines like Canoe Slalom, Kayaking, Canoeing and Rowing will even function alongside the same old sports activities and indigenous video games.
The Video games will happen throughout eight cities of Madhya Pradesh — Bhopal, Indore, Ujjain, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Mandla, Khargone (Maheshwar) and Balaghat, the Sports activities Authority of India (SAI) knowledgeable in a launch on Thursday.
Addressing the gathering, CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, stated, “I thank the Hon’ble Prime Minister from the underside of my coronary heart for giving Madhya Pradesh the prospect to host the Khelo India Youth Video games. We promise to make it probably the most particular Khelo India video games ever and host it holding in thoughts our philosophy of ‘Atithi Devo Bhava’.
“We have now world-class sports activities stadiums in Madhya Pradesh just like the taking pictures and water sports activities academies. Many different services are additionally arising. With the rising improvement in infrastructure and with the privilege of attending to host Khelo India Youth Video games, I’m sure a sports activities revolution will happen in Madhya Pradesh,” the Hon’ble CM of Madhya Pradesh added.
Mentioning that the indigenous video games will as soon as once more be part of the upcoming KIYG, Sports activities Minister Anurag Thakur stated, “It was Hon’ble PM’s imaginative and prescient to assist Olympic sports activities and indigenous sports activities in the identical method. I thank Madhya Pradesh who’ve made the game of Mallakhamb their State sport.
“Sports activities is a State topic. I’m completely satisfied States like MP are coming ahead to do their half in constructing our sports activities ecosystem. All of the States ought to be taught from it and perceive that we now have to contribute as a complete to develop sports activities from the district stage to the State stage and so forth,” the Union Minister added.
Extending his greatest needs, Nisith Pramanik added, “The Madhya Pradesh Govt have carried out every thing doable to assist athletes over time. Each State ought to take an instance of how the Hon’ble PM’s imaginative and prescient to assist athletes attain their pinnacle is taking form. I’m positive this upcoming Khelo India Youth Video games within the ‘land of Mahakal’ would be the most particular ever.”
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