UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — NATIONAL SPORTS POLICY

Q1. The Khelo Bharat Niti, 2025 is structured around how many key pillars?

  • A. Three
  • B. Four
  • C. Five
  • D. Six

Q2. The National Sports Policy, 2001 remained India's operative national sports policy for approximately how many years before being superseded by the Khelo Bharat Niti, 2025?

  • A. About 14 years
  • B. About 18 years
  • C. About 24 years
  • D. About 30 years

Q3. In the chronology of India's sports governance, the National Sports Policy, 1984 is best described as which one of the following?

  • A. India's first national framework for the organized development and promotion of sports
  • B. The policy that first introduced the Target Olympic Podium Scheme for elite athletes
  • C. The statutory code governing recognition of National Sports Federations
  • D. The policy that created the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports

Q4. The Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) is operationalised primarily under which one of the following?

  • A. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (through the Sports Authority of India)
  • B. Indian Olympic Association
  • C. Ministry of Education
  • D. Ministry of Home Affairs

Q5. The National Sports Development Code of India, 2011 primarily governs which one of the following?

  • A. The recognition and good-governance norms of National Sports Federations
  • B. The centre–state funding pattern of Khelo India centres
  • C. Anti-doping sample-collection and testing procedures for athletes
  • D. The selection of athletes for the Target Olympic Podium Scheme

Q6. In India's roadmap for the 2036 Olympics, the Khelo India Rising Talent Identification programme is best described as which one of the following?

  • A. A programme to build a pipeline of athletes to place India among the top-10 sporting nations by 2036
  • B. A scheme to construct Olympic-standard stadia in the proposed 2036 host city
  • C. A financial-assistance scheme reimbursing foreign-training costs of medal-winning athletes
  • D. A programme to recognise and grade private sports academies as National Sports Federations

Q7. What is the quantum of fresh financial outlay earmarked specifically for the Khelo Bharat Niti, 2025?

  • A. ₹3,790.50 crore
  • B. ₹6,801.30 crore
  • C. ₹1,000 crore
  • D. No fresh outlay earmarked

Q8. The Khelo Bharat Niti, 2025 is described as a 'framework policy'. In this context, the term is best understood to mean which one of the following?

  • A. A policy that sets strategic direction and is implemented through existing schemes without a new scheme or dedicated budget
  • B. A centrally sponsored scheme with a fixed 60:40 centre–state funding pattern
  • C. A statutory enactment passed by Parliament that is legally binding on states
  • D. A one-time mission-mode project with a sunset clause and ring-fenced corpus

Q9. Under the Khelo Bharat Niti, 2025, the integration of sports and physical literacy with school education (aligned with NEP 2020) is to be driven through a whole-of-government approach led by which nodal ministry for the policy?

  • A. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (Department of Sports)
  • B. Ministry of Education
  • C. Ministry of Women and Child Development
  • D. NITI Aayog