{"id":19445,"date":"2018-02-13T02:11:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T20:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=19445"},"modified":"2018-02-13T02:11:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T20:41:35","slug":"cm-inaugurates-states-first-artificial-football-turf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/02\/13\/cm-inaugurates-states-first-artificial-football-turf\/","title":{"rendered":"CM inaugurates state&#8217;s first artificial football turf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>CHIMPU (Itanagar), Feb 12:<\/strong> Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Monday inaugurated the state&#8217;s first artificial football turf at Sangay Lhaden Academy Sports Complex (SLSA) here.<br \/>\n&#8220;The project, sanctioned under the Khelo India programme during 2014-15, has been carried out at an estimated cost of Rs 4.5 crore. The engineering wing of the sports department executed the work,&#8221; informed Director of Sports Tadar Appa.<br \/>\nThe Centre had also, in 2010-11, approved Rs 5 crore for a hockey Astroturf at the SLSA. About 75% work is complete for the hockey Astroturf and it is expected to be fully laid by the end of this month.<br \/>\nA friendly football match was played between Chief Minister&#8217;s (CM&#8217;s XI) and Arunachal Pradesh Football Association (APFA) on the occasion.<br \/>\nThe CM&#8217;s XI, led by Home Minister Kumar Waii, went down fighting 2-4 to APFA XI.<br \/>\nAPFA vice presidents Kipa Takum and Likha Tapu, and members Joram Apa and Koj Tatung scored a goal each for the winning team.<br \/>\nFor CM&#8217;s XI, Kipa Bharat and Youth Affairs Joint Director Ramesh Linggi scored a goal each.<br \/>\nEarlier, the chief minister felicitated the U-19 football team of the state for their stupendous performance in the recently held Junior Football Championship for BC Roy Trophy in Himachal Pradesh. The team lost 0-1 to Jharkhand in the semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter CHIMPU (Itanagar), Feb 12: Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Monday inaugurated the state&#8217;s first artificial football turf at Sangay Lhaden Academy Sports Complex (SLSA) here. &#8220;The project, sanctioned under the Khelo India programme during 2014-15, has been carried out at an estimated cost of Rs 4.5 crore. The engineering wing of the sports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19445","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\/19445","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=19445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}