Aug 30 – On the occasion of National Sports Day 2023, Anurag Thakur, Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, introduced the third edition of the Fit India Quiz, among other initiatives, at an event held at the JLN Stadium here on Tuesday.
Almost 500 schoolchildren from various New Delhi schools, as well as some elite athletes and officials from the MYAS, SAI, and National Sports Federations, attended the event.
The Honourable Minister also launched an information booklet on sports infrastructure projects sanctioned under the Khelo India Scheme, as well as a portal for National Sports Federations, while also congratulating the 4x400m men’s relay team, who had just set an Asian record at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
Addressing the event, Thakur mentioned, “The Wizard of Hockey Major Dhyan Chand gave us three consecutive Olympic gold medals in hockey in 1928, 1932, and 1936. This is a fitting day for tribute to this great maestro and I’m happy to observe that over the years, coaches and athletes have also played a big role to take this sporting revolution forward. Coaches and athletes play a big role.
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“There are 3526 events happening today across India and that’s a testament of the road to which we have come today. This is an unbelievable phase for Indian sports. In 60 years, there were only 18 medals at the World University Games. This year itself, we won 26 medals in the tournament. Not only that, across all sports, be it Praggnanandha in Chess to Antim Panghal in wrestling and Aditi Gopichand Swami in archery, we are getting phenomenal results. In the World Athletics Championships Budapest too, our 4x400m relay team gave a great display, along with Parul Chaudhary as well as our evergreen Neeraj Chopra, who has not got gold in every possible high scale international competition in the sport,” the Hon’ble Minister added.
Following two successful iterations, the third edition of the Fit India Quiz was also announced. It is India’s largest sports and fitness quiz competition for high school students, with a total prize pool of Rs 3.25 crores. “I was amazed to see that students from the Tenga valley of Arunachal participated in the Fit India Quiz, along with remote locations in Andaman, Sikkim, and so on,” Shri Thakur stated of the Fit India Quiz. They were the quiz’s best teams.”
