Guwahati: With an idea to conquer challenges and optimise opportunities and explore scope of sports that youths of North East can take up as career option and suggest a roadmap for Sports University in Manipur, a North East Sports Conclave was organised in Manipur’s capital city Imphal.
It was organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in association with the North Eastern Council (NEC), Government of India and supported Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, Govternment of Manipur, an ICC release informed here.
The North East Sports Conclave- A seminar on scopes and Potentials of North East in Sports, focused on Infrastructure Development, Grooming and Training, Challenges and Opportunities and finding Roadmap for National Sports University in Manipur. The conclave began with welcome address from ICC Regional Director Ishantor Sobhapandit, where he called industry to invest on sports and sportsperson and the national Sports University should bring investment in terms of manufacturing sports goods and utilities.
Delivering the keynote address N Ashok Kumar, Secretary to the Chief Minister and Director, Youth Affairs and Sports, Govt. of Manipur said there has been loud clamour for Sports as subject in school curriculum and it is a welcome move to have a National Sports University in virtually the sports capital of India, Manipur. Mairenbam Prithviraj Singh, Manipur, laid stress on taking up sports by youths to be physically and mentally fit to build a healthy and productive nation. (UNI)
