Patna, May 4 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday declared open Khelo India Youth Games 2025 and said his government was making serious efforts to get opportunity for hosting 2036 Olympics in India.

PM declared open through video conferencing, Khelo India Youth Games 2025, being hosted by Bihar, saying it would give opportunity to more than 6,000 sportspersons participating in the event, to improve their talents.

Sports were no more limited to stadiums, but it also helped in creating vast job opportunities in various related sectors, he said.

"We are making best efforts to get opportunity for hosting 2026 Olympics in India and infrastructural facilities are being improved accordingly," Modi said and pointed that more than 1,000 Khe...