{"id":20395,"date":"2018-01-31T11:43:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T11:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=20395"},"modified":"2018-01-31T11:43:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T11:43:47","slug":"pm-modi-to-launch-1st-khelo-india-school-games-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pm-modi-to-launch-1st-khelo-india-school-games-today\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi to launch 1st Khelo India School Games today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the first Khelo India School Games at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi today.<\/p>\n<p>The Khelo India programme has been introduced to revive the sports culture in India at the grass-root level by building a strong framework for all sports played in our country and establishing India as a great sporting nation. In keeping with Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s vision, Khelo India is expected to help scout young talent from the schools in various disciplines and groom them as future sports champions.<\/p>\n<p>Talented players identified in priority sports disciplines at various levels by a High-Powered Committee will be provided annual financial assistance of Rs. 5 lakh per annum for 8 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Khelo India School Games are being held from 31st January to 8th February, 2018 in New Delhi. Under-17 athletes have been invited to participate across 16 disciplines: Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Boxing, Football, Gymnastics, Hockey, Judo, Kabaddi, Kho-Kho, Shooting, Swimming, Volleyball, Weightlifting, and Wrestling. The games will highlight India\u2019s young sporting talent and showcase India&#8217;s sports potential.<\/p>\n<p>199 gold medals, 199 silver medals and 275 bronze medals are at stake in the Khelo India School Games. The country\u2019s brightest talent in the under-17 age group will compete in the Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the first Khelo India School Games at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi today. The Khelo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20397,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20395\/revisions\/20397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}