Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and invited him for the opening or closing event of Khelo India Youth Games to be held in the state from December 11 to 22.
Revanth Reddy along with sports minister Vakiti Srihari and irrigation minister Uttam Kumar Reddy, during their meeting the Prime Minister office, told Modi that Telangana had increased its sports budget from `113 crore to `465 crore over three years. He added that 61 mini-stadiums had been completed, while work on 15 more was under way, as the state prepared to host the national youth sporting event.
Earlier, Chief Minister and Union sports minister Mansukh Mandaviya unveiled the official logo and mascot of the eighth Khelo India Youth Games 2026. The Games will be held across Telangana, with events in Hyderabad, Khammam, Karimnagar, Hanamkonda, Mahbubnagar and Nizamabad.
Around 8,000 athletes and participants are expected to take part in 27 competitive disciplines and two demonstration events, sailing and karra samu which is a traditional stick-fighting and martial art form of the Telugu states. The Chief Minister said the event would provide a major platform for young athletes aspiring to represent India at the Asian Games and Olympics.
The competitive disciplines include archery, athletics, badminton, basketball, boxing, cycling, fencing, football, gymnastics, hockey, judo, rowing, shooting, swimming, softball which makes its debut, table tennis, tennis, volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling, as well as the more traditional events such as kabaddi, kho-kho, yogasana, the Meitei martial art form of thang-ta, mallakhamb, the Indian form of gymnastics using a pole, the gatka martial art of the Sikhs and kalaripayattu, the martial art from Kerala.
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