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ITANAGAR, 29 Aug:<\/strong> The state government disbursed annual cash incentives to the meritorious sportspersons of the state on the occasion of National Sports Day on Sunday.<\/p>\n A total of Rs 30 lakhs were disbursed among 66 athletes from nine sports disciplines – archery, boxing, football, judo, kickboxing, karate-do, taekwondo, weightlifting and wushu, Sports Director Tadar Appa said.<\/p>\n As per the sports policy of the state, the coaches concerned will receive 10 percent of the total amount.<\/p>\n Every year, the sports & youth affairs department felicitates the meritorious sportspersons with cash incentives on the National Sports Day as a token of encouragement and recognition of their achievements.<\/p>\n So far, a total of Rs 4,73,94,989 cash incentives have been disbursed since its institution in 2012, Appa said.<\/p>\n Speaking on the occasion, Sports & Youth Affairs Minister Mama Natung said that the state government under the leadership of Chief Minister Pema Khandu is committed to uplifting the sports sector “with a vision to make Arunachal a powerhouse of sports in the years to come.”<\/p>\n Earlier, Natung paid tributes to Maj Dhyan Chand, who built a strong edifice of sports, especially hockey, in India. He also congratulated the Indian hockey team for winning a medal in the Tokyo Olympics after a gap of 40 years.<\/p>\n Sports & Youth Affairs Secretary Anirudh Singh and Sports Authority of Arunachal (SAA) chairman Byabang Taj also spoke.<\/p>\n Officers of the sports & youth affairs department and the Arunachal Olympic Association, the president and general secretaries of the state level sports associations and DSOs also joined the programme.<\/p>\n In the afternoon, a friendly football match was played between SAA Chairman XI and Sports Minister’s XI to mark the National Sports Day. SAA XI defeated Sports Minister’s XI by 7-5 goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 29 Aug: The state government disbursed annual cash incentives to the meritorious sportspersons of the state on the occasion of National Sports Day on Sunday. A total of Rs 30 lakhs were disbursed among 66 athletes from nine sports disciplines – archery, boxing, football, judo, kickboxing, karate-do, taekwondo, weightlifting and wushu, Sports Director Tadar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-170542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}