NEW DELHI: Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, while declaring the inaugural edition of the Khelo India School Games a success, has announced plans to launch the ‘Khelo India College (University) Games’ on the lines of the KISG by next year.
“We would soon be having the college games on the lines of the ‘College Games of America’. These kids know that KISG is a great platform. I would urge all those studying in the 8th, 9th or the 10th standard to start preparing now. Their parents should send them to good coaches so that they can participate in the KISG for next 3-4 years and then graduate to the college-level games,” Rathore told reporters here Tuesday.
Rathore further said that under the government’s Khelo India programme, a separate women’s championship would be organised, besides increasing the number of disciplines from 16 in future editions of KISG.
“We are proud of the standard we have set. I am happy that this standard was better than we had thought,” the minister asserted.
“I feel we have organised the Games very well so far. In the future, there will be encouragement of women’s sports and for that there will be a separate championship within the Khelo India,” Rathore said.
