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which they would not have got have taken to sports seriously is
otherwise. a result of the vision of PM and
his continuous effort to untiringly
The chosen ‘Khelo India Athletes’,
or KIAs as they are called, get an inspire the youth of India. As the
Prime Minister said, "Sports are an
allowance of Rs 10,000 per month
to spend on their personal needs important means of personality
like diet, sports gear and travel development... Sports should
costs to participate in competitive occupy a central place in the lives
events. This is in addition to Rs of our youth..."
5 lakh that is spent on each of What has motivated the youth
them every year for their training, of India, most of them from very
board and lodging, and coaching humble backgrounds, to actually
at a Khelo India Academy or a SAI
turn out in large numbers to
Centre. participate at a national-level
This 360-degree support to sporting event like Khelo India is
grassroots-level athletes and the not just about their love for sports
robust enthusiasm with which so or the possibility of proving their
many young men and women talent and thus build a future in
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