Indian Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports announced on 25th July, 2020 that in 2021 fourth ‘Khelo India Youth Games’ will be hosted by

The correct answer is A) Haryana. On 25 July 2020, the Union Sports Minister announced that Haryana would host the fourth Khelo India Youth Games in 2021. This is a sports-governance fact, and the answer depends on remembering the host state for that edition, not on any general knowledge about Haryana.

The other options are wrong for this edition. The earlier editions were hosted elsewhere: the first in Delhi in 2018, and the second in Pune, Maharashtra, in 2019. Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh were not the announced hosts for the fourth edition, so they are the ones to rule out by elimination.

Concept: Khelo India is the government's flagship grassroots sports scheme, and the Youth Games are its national talent-identification event for under-17 and under-21 athletes. For Mains (GS-II, governance and schemes), the rotation of hosts across states shows how central schemes use decentralised events to build sports infrastructure.

Note that the COVID-19 pandemic forced several Khelo India events to be postponed or rescheduled, so check the latest status of the edition before quoting dates in an answer.

Trap: Aspirants often mix up the host sequence of the Khelo India Youth Games with the National Games or with Olympic-style events, and pick the state that hosted an earlier edition.