Correct Answer - Option 1 : Kiren Rijiju
The correct answer Kiren Rijiju.
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Kiren Rijiju is the Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports as of February 2020.
- The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports is a branch of the Government of India which administers the Department of youth affairs and the Department of Sports in India.
- Kiren Rijiju is the current Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, who is in the capacity of Minister of State (Independent Charge).
- The ministry also gives the annual National Sports awards in various categories, including the Arjuna Award and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awards.
- The Department of Sports is a division of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports under the Government of India created on 30 April 2008.
- They also helped in bringing the FIFA U-17 World cup to India.
- The Ministry was set up as the Department of Sports at the time of the organization of 1982 Asian Games New Delhi.
- Its name was changed to the Department of Youth Affairs & Sports during the celebration of the International Youth Year, 1985.
- It became a separate Ministry on 27 May 2000.
- Subsequently, In 2008, the Ministry has been bifurcated into the Department of Youth Affairs and the Department of Sports under two separate Secretaries.
