PM Modi to inaugurate first Khelo India University Games on Saturday
New Delhi/UNI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the first-ever Khelo India University Games via video conferencing at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium here on Saturday.
The Khelo India University Games will be held from February 22 to March 1 at Bhubaneswar.
The Khelo India University Games are being launched by the Government of India in association with the Government of the State of Odisha.
The Khelo India Programme, a brain child of the Prime Minister, was 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.
This is the largest ever competition held at university level in India and will have about 3,500 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.
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