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Lucknow News: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Union Sports, Youth Affairs Minister Anurag Thakur on Friday Khelo India University Games (KIUG) logo, mascot, jersey and anthem (song) were launched here. This time UP has got the opportunity to host this event. On this occasion, Union Minister Anurag Thakur said that once UP was known by the name of riots, now the state will be known for the riots here. Once upon a time bullets used to rain here, now there will be rifle shooting competitions in a different way.
Khelo India did the work of finding and grooming players
Union Minister Anurag Thakur said that through the Khelo India University Games (KIUG), a platform has been created in five years, in which the work of finding and then grooming players has been done. He said that in the last several years, there are many players who showed their talent by coming on the platform of Khelo India and then after getting training from Sports Authority of India, these players went on to win medals from Commonwealth, World Championships to Olympics. Did.
UP will become the most medal awarding state
Union Minister Anurag Thakur said that the biggest ever Khelo India University Games is going to be organized in UP. This is the state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. It is the country’s largest population state and in the coming days it will be the country’s highest medal awarding state.
UP will be a big name in the world of sports
He said that the steps taken by the Yogi government are behind this. Here the Yogi government has done the work of promoting sports facilities. The work of setting up the basic infrastructure has been done. It was decided to set up a sports university in Meerut. This shows that the day is not far when India will win medals in any corner of the world, the tricolor will be hoisted and the national anthem will be played, Uttar Pradesh will also contribute a lot in that.
Earlier bullets used to rain, now shooting competitions are organized
He said that the image of Uttar Pradesh has changed in the Yogi government. We have seen this change. Once this state was known by the name of riots, now the state will be known for the riots here. Once upon a time bullets used to rain here, now in a different way our medalists in rifle shooting will stand from here and work to win medals for the country.
India is now winning more medals at international level
The Union Minister said that due to the facilities provided by the government, we have won the maximum number of medals in the Tokyo Olympics till date, 7 medals, 19 medals in the Paralympics and 20 medals in the Deaf Olympics.
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