lucknow additional chief secretary sports navneet sehgal has issued directives for setting up venuewise committees to make the khelo india university games 23 a success each committee would be headed by sports officer he addedreviewing preparations for the university games sehgal said that the opening ceremony would be inaugurated by chief minister yogi adityanath in lucknow while prime minister narendra modi would be chief guest at the closing ceremony to be organized in varanasisehgal said that main events of the university games would be organized in lucknow while football boxing and mallakhamba events would be organized at bbd university here badminton and table tennis would be held at bbd academy athletics volleyball judo competitions would be organized at dr shakuntala mishra national university he added over 990 players would participate in events in the state capital the acs saidweightlifting and fencing events would be held at gautam buddha university in noida over 400 players would participate in these events he said and added that wrestling and yoga contests would be held at iit bhu varanasi and rowing would be organized in gorakhpurspecial arrangements would be made for schoolchildren to witness these events in their cities sehgal added