CDS (II) 2020 GK Q29: Which one of the following States is planned to host the

Q: What is the answer to CDS (II) 2020 GK Q29?

B. Correct — B, Haryana. The announcement came on 25 July 2020, a few months before this paper was set: Haryana would host the fourth edition of the Khelo India Youth Games, then scheduled for 2021, with Panchkula as the main venue. The pandemic pushed the event back twice, and it was finally held at Panchkula in June 2022. The stem's careful wording — is planned to host — reflects exactly that state of affairs at the time of the examination, when the host had been named but the games had not yet been staged. The earlier editions had gone to Delhi in 2018, when the event was still called the Khelo India School Games, and to the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex at Balewadi in Pune in 2019, the year the Indian Olympic Association came on board and the name changed to Khelo India Youth Games.

CDS (II) 2020 General Knowledge · Question 29 of 120

Question text verified against the official CDS question paper.

Which one of the following States is planned to host the Khelo India Youth Games (4th Edition)?

(a)Kerala
(b)Haryana
(c)Gujarat
(d)Manipur

Answer

Why

Correct — B, Haryana. The announcement came on 25 July 2020, a few months before this paper was set: Haryana would host the fourth edition of the Khelo India Youth Games, then scheduled for 2021, with Panchkula as the main venue. The pandemic pushed the event back twice, and it was finally held at Panchkula in June 2022. The stem's careful wording — is planned to host — reflects exactly that state of affairs at the time of the examination, when the host had been named but the games had not yet been staged. The earlier editions had gone to Delhi in 2018, when the event was still called the Khelo India School Games, and to the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex at Balewadi in Pune in 2019, the year the Indian Olympic Association came on board and the name changed to Khelo India Youth Games.

Why the others are wrong

(a)Kerala — Kerala has hosted National Games and has a strong sporting record, but it was not chosen for this edition.
(c)Gujarat — Gujarat hosted the National Games in 2022 and the Khelo India University Games later, which is why it is a tempting answer — but not the fourth Youth Games.
(d)Manipur — Manipur is prominent in Indian sport out of all proportion to its size, particularly in boxing and weightlifting, but it did not host this edition.

Concept

The Khelo India scheme is the Union Government's programme for building a sporting base among school and college students, with talent identification, long-term athlete scholarships and support for sports infrastructure. The competitions attached to it have grown into a family: the Youth Games for under-17 and under-21 school athletes, the University Games, the Winter Games and the Para Games. Hosting rotates among States, which is deliberate — the infrastructure built for an edition is meant to stay with the host afterwards.

Current-affairs items on sport are usually set in the gap between an announcement and the event, and this one was written squarely inside that gap. That makes the answer stable even though the games themselves were postponed: the question is about who was chosen, not about when it happened. Two useful extras: the first edition of the Khelo India University Games was inaugurated at Cuttack in February 2020, and in December 2020 four indigenous games — gatka, kalaripayattu, thang-ta and mallakhamba — were added to the Youth Games programme. Present-day position: the series has moved on a long way, with the seventh edition held in Bihar in May 2025 across Patna, Rajgir, Bhagalpur, Gaya and Begusarai, so the Haryana fact belongs firmly to 2020-22.

Key facts

Haryana was announced on 25 July 2020 as host of the fourth Khelo India Youth Games, then scheduled for 2021.
The event was postponed because of the pandemic and finally held at Panchkula, Haryana, in June 2022.
The first edition was inaugurated in Delhi on 31 January 2018 as the Khelo India School Games, with competition for 209 gold medals across 17 sports.
From 2019 the event was renamed the Khelo India Youth Games, after the Indian Olympic Association came on board; that edition was held at Balewadi, Pune.
In December 2020 gatka, kalaripayattu, thang-ta and mallakhamba were added as indigenous games.

Study next

The Khelo India scheme — talent identification, athlete scholarships and infrastructure supportThe Khelo India family of events: Youth Games, University Games, Winter Games and Para GamesThe Target Olympic Podium Scheme and how it differs from Khelo IndiaThe Sports Authority of India and the National Sports FederationsIndigenous Indian sports and their inclusion in national competition

Common traps

Confusing the National Games with the Khelo India Youth Games. They are different competitions with different hosts.
Assuming the postponement changed the host. It did not; Haryana staged the edition in 2022.
Mixing up the Youth Games with the University Games, whose first edition was at Cuttack in 2020.

As a which-State-hosted item on a recent sporting event, or as a scheme-and-ministry matching item.

Related PYQs

No directly related past PYQ was found.

Practice

practice — not a real PYQ
The first edition of the games now known as the Khelo India Youth Games was held in 2018 under which name?
- (a)Khelo India University Games
- (b)Khelo India School Games
- (c)National School Games
- (d)Khelo India Winter Games
Answer(b) Khelo India School Games — it was renamed the Khelo India Youth Games from the 2019 edition, after the Indian Olympic Association joined the effort.
practice — not a real PYQ
Which one of the following was added to the Khelo India Youth Games as an indigenous sport in December 2020?
- (a)Sepaktakraw
- (b)Mallakhamba
- (c)Squash
- (d)Rugby sevens
Answer(b) Mallakhamba — it was added along with gatka, kalaripayattu and thang-ta as indigenous games.