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Sports For All joins Khelo India as powered by sponsor to empower India’s next sports icons
Mumbai: Sports For All (SFA), which is a multi-sport tech driven competition organiser, will aim to bolster the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) mission by reviving the sports culture at the grass-root level. It is a sponsor of the event for the next five years.
SFA is focused on developing youth sports in the country, bolstering India’s dream of winning more Olympic medals. Through this strategic partnership, SFA will invest Rs 12.5 crore over the next five years to contribute in developing India’s sporting DNA.
“With the belief that potential can only be translated into performance if sport finds support at the grassroots level itself, we launched the SFA Championships in 2015. Having overseen immense success through our innovative technology-based approach over the years across numerous multi-sport grassroots championships, SFA is delighted to come on board as the Powered by Sponsor for Khelo India and reinforce the country’s sporting canvas as a pipeline and nurturer of the KIYG mission—reviving the sports culture in India at the grass-root level. Through this association, SFA will be fully focused on bringing all key stakeholders of sports together for a trustworthy, transparent and seamless growth of grassroots experience,” said SFA founder Rishikesh Joshi.
Khelo India is a programme introduced by the government to build a strong framework for all sports played at the grassroots in India and establish the country as a sporting superpower. To accomplish the mission, the program has been divided into twelve different verticals which include developing state level Khelo India centres, talent identification and development, sports for women, promotion of sports amongst people with disabilities and much more.
“SAI is happy to have Sports for All (SFA) as a Powered by sponsor of KIYG2022. SFA’s work in sports, aligns with the larger vision of the government to identify and nurture grassroot level sporting talent. Khelo India Youth Games being the largest platform for multi sport competition for young athletes in the country is the right platform for this association.” said a Sports Authority of India (SAI) spokesperson.
SFA, a fully integrated digital plus on-ground multi-sport platform which is the official partner of the Indian Olympic Association—Tokyo Olympics 2020, Commonwealth Games 2022 & Asian Games 2022, builds technology to enable high precision for executing large-scale, multisport competitions to identify and nurture talent across sports at the grassroots level in India.
SFA also aims to reach 20 states and 15 lakh children in the next three years through the SFA Championships.
In the past, SFA has powered the digital and tech experience at the National Games 2022 and Khelo India Youth Games 2021, managing it completely end-to-end, and they themselves have organised 12 SFA Grassroots Championships as a testament to their commitment to empower sports at the grassroot level and create a culture that promotes as well as encourages participation, revamps infrastructure and nurtures talent to turn them into future sporting stars.
The upcoming fifth edition of the Khelo India Youth Games will be held in Madhya Pradesh from 31 January-11 February.
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Meta plans 8,000 layoffs in new AI-led restructuring wave
First phase from May 20 may cut 10 per cent workforce amid AI pivot.
MUMBAI: At Meta, the future may be artificial but the cuts are very real. The social media giant is reportedly preparing a fresh round of layoffs, with an initial wave expected to impact around 8,000 employees as it doubles down on its artificial intelligence ambitions. According to a Reuters report, the first phase of job cuts is slated to begin on May 20, targeting roughly 10 per cent of Meta’s global workforce. With nearly 79,000 employees on its rolls as of December 31, the move marks one of the company’s most significant workforce reductions in recent years.
And this may only be the beginning. Sources indicate that additional layoffs are being planned for the second half of the year, although the scale and timing remain fluid, likely to be shaped by how Meta’s AI capabilities evolve in the coming months. Earlier reports had suggested that total cuts in 2026 could reach 20 per cent or more of its workforce.
The restructuring comes as chief executive Mark Zuckerberg continues to steer the company towards an AI-first operating model, committing hundreds of billions of dollars to the transition. Internally, this shift is already visible: teams within Reality Labs have been reorganised, engineers have been moved into a newly formed Applied AI unit, and a Meta Small Business division has been created to align with broader structural changes.
The trend is hardly isolated. Across the tech sector, companies are trimming headcount while investing aggressively in automation. Amazon, for instance, has reportedly cut around 30,000 corporate roles nearly 10 per cent of its white-collar workforce citing efficiency gains driven by AI. Data from Layoffs.fyi shows over 73,000 tech employees have already lost jobs this year, compared with 153,000 in all of 2024.
For Meta, the move echoes its earlier “year of efficiency” in 2022–23, when about 21,000 roles were eliminated amid slowing growth and market pressures. This time, however, the backdrop is different. The company is financially stronger, generating over $200 billion in revenue and $60 billion in profit last year, with shares up 3.68 per cent year-to-date though still below last summer’s peak.
That contrast underlines the shift underway. These layoffs are less about survival and more about reinvention. As Meta restructures itself around AI from autonomous coding agents to advanced machine learning systems, the question is no longer whether the company will change, but how many roles will be left unchanged when it does.
