In the Khelo India Youth Games played at Panchkula in Haryana, State’s players bagged the Overall Championship with their stunning performance. Pioneering, Malkhambh has also been subsumed along with indigenous sports in Khelo India Games this year. Madhya Pradesh team has become the champion by winning 12 medals, including 5 gold, 5 silver and 2 bronze medals.

The girls and boys team won gold and silver medal respectively. Pankaj Gargama of Madhya Pradesh secured maximum 3 gold medals. He won one gold each in Hanging, Rope Malakhamb and one gold medal in overall. Apart from this, Siddhi Gupta has won gold medal in Pole Malkhambh, Pranav Kori has won silver medal in Pole Malkhambh and Inderjit Nagar has won one silver each in Rope and Hanging Malkhambh and bronze medal in all-round. Harshita Kanadkar of Madhya Pradesh team has won gold medal in Pole Malkhambh and bronze medal in Rope Malkhambh.

Sports and Youth Welfare Minister Yashodhara Raje Scindia felicitated all the players for making State proud by winning the overall championship. She said that in Khelo India Youth Games, our players have made the state proud by winning 12 medals in indigenous sports.

She has expressed her gratitude to the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for declaring the traditional game Malkhambh as the State game in the year 2005. Scindia said that at present 11 feeder centres are being run in the state, in Khelo India our players triumphed over the Maharashtra, well-known for Malakhambh.