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Shillong, Feb 27 (PTI) The first artificial turf football ground of Garo Hills in Meghalaya, built at a cost of Rs 5.40 crore, was inaugurated.<\/p>\n
Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma inaugurated the ground in Tura on Saturday, announcing that another Rs 3 crore has been sanctioned for the construction of galleries and other amenities.<\/p>\n
The chief minister, however, faced protests on the way to the programme over the appointment of his brother-in-law Rakesh Sangma as the Chief Executive Member of the Garo Tribal Council.<\/p>\n
The chief minister said he was hopeful that the ground will help in developing footballers in the region.<\/p>\n
The construction of the indoor swimming pool and the renovation of Tura District Auditorium will be completed within March, he said.<\/p>\n
A new convention centre will be built at Dakopgre locality in Tura at a cost of Rs 150 crore, Sangma announced.<\/p>\n
Four junctions in the district — Chandmary, Ringrey, Hawakhana and Araimile — will be beautified at a cost of Rs 20 crore, he said.<\/p>\n
Road projects worth Rs 13 crore and a state-of-the-art street light project have also been taken up under the ‘Smart Tura Town’ project, he said.<\/p>\n
A skill centre will be set up at Babadam, for which the foundation stone will be laid on March 26. The project will be built at a cost of Rs 280 crore, Sangma said.<\/p>\n
A ‘garbage-to-energy’ project will soon be taken up, and the tender for mechanised cleaning system will be floated, he said.<\/p>\n
Raising slogans such as ‘Conrad has no shame’, a huge crowd protested with black flags as the chief minister was on the way to the venue.<\/p>\n
Since the appointment of Rakesh Sangma, people of the Garo Hills along with some NGOs have been protesting, demanding his removal.<\/p>\n
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Shillong, Feb 27 (PTI) The first artificial turf football ground of Garo Hills in Meghalaya, built at a cost of Rs 5.40 crore, was inaugurated. Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma inaugurated the ground in Tura on Saturday, announcing that another Rs 3 crore has been sanctioned for the construction of galleries and other amenities. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-185368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185368","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=185368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}