The State Level Guru Nanak Devji Provincial Olympic Games will be organised in State Capital. The competitions will begin from February 1.

The inauguration will be held at TT Nagar stadium on Saturday. It is to be noted that the weeklong olympic games will continue till February 7.

State Revenue and Transport Minister Govind Singh Rajput, Law and Legislative, Public Relations Minister P.C. Sharma, Sports and Youth Welfare Minister  Jitu Patwari, former Union Minister Arun Yadav and Padmashree Olympian archer Deepika Kumari will be present on the inaugural ceremony.

In the ceremony, medal winners of Khelo India Youth Games will be awarded by providing incentives. Under this, incentive amount of Rs 1lakh will be given to the gold medal winning player, 75,000  to the silver medal winner and Rs 50,000 thousand to the bronze medal winner. It is worth mentioning that in the Khelo India Youth Games, the State players have given a total of 46 medals including 15 gold, 11 silver and 20 bronze to Madhya Pradesh.

Director Sports and Youth Welfare, S. L. Thoussen, informed that the State-level Guru Nanak Devji Provincial Olympic Sports Competition is being organised in two groups in the Capital Bhopal, in which about three thousand boys and women players of ten divisions of the State are participating. These include players from Gwalior, Chambal, Sagar, Jabalpur, Rewa, Shahdol, Indore, Ujjain, Narmadapuram and Bhopal divisions.

Thoussen said that according to the decision taken by the State Government, Guru Nanak Devji Provincial Olympic Games are being organised in the entire State. Guru Nanak Devji Provincial Olympic Games were organised at the development, district and division levels in which about one lakh sports children participated.

After this, a State-level Guru Nanak Devji Provincial Olympic Games will be organised in Bhopal in which boys and girls will participate in volleyball, football, basketball, hockey, kabaddi, kho-kho, athletics, wrestling, badminton and table tennis.

Under the State-level Guru Nanak Devji Provincial Olympic Games, the first group will compete in volleyball, football, wrestling, badminton and kabaddi from February 1 to 3 and the second group will compete from February 5 to 7, 2020 in basketball, athletics, kho-kho, hockey and Table-tennis.