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Khelo India is a government program launched in 2017 to improve India's sports culture through talent identification, competitions, and infrastructure development. It organizes youth and university games as well as winter games and supports state sports facilities known as Khelo India Centres of Excellence.

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Khelo Inida

Khelo India is a government program launched in 2017 to improve India's sports culture through talent identification, competitions, and infrastructure development. It organizes youth and university games as well as winter games and supports state sports facilities known as Khelo India Centres of Excellence.

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Khelo India: National Programme for Development of Sports, branded as 

Khelo India (transl. Play India), aims at improving India's


sports culture at the grass-root level through organized talent identification, structured sporting competitions and infrastructure development.
[1]
 It is a Government of India programme launched in 2017-18 under the tenure Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sports Minister's Vijay
Goel and Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore.[2][3]

Contents

 1Competitions
 2Khelo India Centres of Excellence
 3See also
 4References
 5Further reading

Competitions[edit]
 Khelo India Youth Games
o Editions: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
 Khelo India University Games
o Editions: 2020, 2022
 Khelo India Winter Games
o Editions: 2020

Khelo India Centres of Excellence[edit]


Khelo India State Centres of Excellence (KISCE) are sports facilities across India, built upon existing facilities, aiming to provide basic
facilities for sportspersons with potential. Each centre will cater to three sporting disciplines. [4]

See also[edit]
 Sports in India

References[edit]
1. ^ Department of Sports. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (May 2016). Operational Guidelines on Khelo India. Government of India.
Retrieved on 6 January 2021. Archived on 17 January 2019.
2. ^ Roy, Tasmayee Laha (16 March 2017). "Khelo India programme for development of sport". The Economic Times. Retrieved 6
January 2021.
3. ^ "Revamped 'Khelo India' to focus on all-round development: Sports Minister". The New Indian Express. PTI. 20 September 2017.
Retrieved 6 January 2021.
4. ^ "Sports Ministry inaugurates Khelo India Centres of Excellence". Sportstar. The Hindu. 22 December 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2021.

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