Bhubaneswar: The 40th National Junior Kho Kho Championships 2021 are going to be held at Bhubaneswar from today. Sixty teams from across the country with more than 700 players are participating in this sporting extravaganza. The event is being jointly organized by the Odisha Kho Kho Association, Department of Sports And Youth Services and KIIT University. All the game events are going to be held at the Biju Patnaik Indoor Sports Complex of KIIT University. Both the Boys and Girls teams have been devided into eight groups.
Hosts Odisha along with Karnataka, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Meghalaya are in the Group D of the Boys category. In the Girls Category, Odisha is in the Group E along with Andhra Pradesh, Manipur and Jammu and Kashmir. The group matches will be followed by the knockout matches. Leading teams will participate in the Khelo India Youth Games to be held at Panckula in Haryana next year.