Consider the following statements regarding to 38th National Games 2025 and choose the correct option : Statement (A) : It will be hosted by Uttarakhand. Statement (B) : The National Games will feature 28 sporting disciplines and 4 demonstration events.
- (1)Both Statements (A) and (B) are correct.
- (2)Only Statement (A) is correct.
- (3)Only Statement (B) is correct.
- (4)Both Statements (A) and (B) are incorrect.
Answer
Why
Correct — option (2), Only Statement (A) is correct.
Statement (A) is correct. Uttarakhand hosted the 38th National Games. The Government's release of 28 January 2025, issued as the Prime Minister opened them, said they would run from 28 January to 14 February 2025, in 11 cities across 8 districts of the state.
The Prime Minister inaugurated the Games in Dehradun on 28 January 2025. On the exam date, 2 February 2025, they were under way.
Statement (B) is incorrect. The same release put the programme at 35 sports disciplines, with medals in 33 sports and two as exhibition sports. Neither the 28 disciplines nor the 4 demonstration events in the statement matches.
With (A) correct and (B) incorrect, the code is option (2).
The idea to remember: Uttarakhand; the opening-day release listed 35 disciplines, 33 with medals and 2 exhibition sports.
Why the others are wrong
- (1)Both Statements (A) and (B) are correct. — This keeps statement (B), which the Government's release of 28 January 2025 contradicts. The release put the 38th National Games at 35 sports disciplines, 33 of them medal sports and two exhibition sports, not 28 disciplines and 4 demonstration events.
Only statement (A), on the host state, holds. The code would fit only if the programme count in (B) were also right.
- (3)Only Statement (B) is correct. — This rejects the true statement and keeps the false one. Uttarakhand did host the Games: the Prime Minister opened them in Dehradun on 28 January 2025, and they ran to 14 February 2025.
Statement (B)'s 28 disciplines and 4 demonstration events do not match the 35 disciplines in the Government's release.
- (4)Both Statements (A) and (B) are incorrect. — This rejects statement (A), which is correct. Uttarakhand hosted the 38th National Games, in the 25th year of the state's formation, as the Prime Minister noted at the opening.
The previous edition, the 37th National Games, was held in Goa in 2023. Only statement (B) is incorrect.
Concept
The National Games are India's national multi-sport competition, contested by state teams and other units, with a host state organising each edition alongside the Indian Olympic Association.
A Games programme is counted in more than one way. At the opening of the 38th edition, the Government's release listed 35 sports disciplines, with medals to be awarded in 33 and the other two as exhibition sports.
That is why a total of disciplines and a total of medal sports are different numbers for the same Games.
RPSC's 2024 syllabus lists "Games and Sports related activities" under Current Affairs.
The National Games sit alongside the Khelo India competitions in India's domestic calendar. Opening the 38th Games, the Prime Minister referred to the Khelo India Youth, University and Para Games, and to the fifth Khelo India Winter Games then under way in Ladakh.
The 2025 Games carried the theme "Green Games". The Prime Minister said the medals and trophies were made of e-waste and a tree would be planted in the name of every medal winner.
Key facts
- Uttarakhand hosted the 38th National Games from 28 January to 14 February 2025; the opening-day release placed them in 11 cities across 8 districts.
- PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the 38th National Games in Dehradun on 28 January 2025, in Uttarakhand's 25th year as a state.
- The Government's release of 28 January 2025 listed 35 sports disciplines for the 38th National Games: medals in 33 sports, and two exhibition sports.
- The 28 January 2025 release called Yoga and Mallakhamb first-time National Games sports, but News18 reported both on the IOA programme for the 36th Games, Gujarat 2022.
- The 38th National Games' theme was "Green Games"; the PM said its medals and trophies were made of e-waste.
Only (A) holds, so the code is option (2).
Study next
Common traps
- Treating the disciplines total and the medal-sport total as one number: the opening-day release listed 35 disciplines in all, 33 awarding medals and 2 exhibition sports.
- Judging a two-statement item on statement (A) alone: a correct host state says nothing about the counts in (B).
- Taking the 38th edition for the 37th: the 37th National Games were held in Goa in 2023, and Uttarakhand hosted the 38th in 2025.
A question can ask for the host state or opening city of a National Games edition, or for its number of disciplines and exhibition sports.
A question can pair a statement on the host with a statement on the programme and ask which is correct. A question can also ask which sports appeared at the National Games for the first time.
Related PYQs
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Practice
- practice — not a real PYQ
According to the Government of India's announcement of 28 January 2025, competitions in how many sports disciplines were to be held at the 38th National Games in Uttarakhand?
- (a)28
- (b)32
- (c)35
- (d)38
Answer(3) — The Government's release of 28 January 2025 lists 35 sports disciplines, with medals in 33 and two exhibition sports. Option (1) is the figure in RPSC's statement (B), which is incorrect; option (2) matches no figure in the release; option (4) is the edition number, not a count of disciplines. - practice — not a real PYQ
In which city did the Prime Minister inaugurate the 38th National Games on 28 January 2025?
- (a)Haldwani
- (b)Dehradun
- (c)Haridwar
- (d)Rishikesh
Answer(2) — The Government's release records the inauguration in Dehradun. Options (1), (3) and (4) are Uttarakhand cities, but none of them is where the Prime Minister opened the Games.