{"id":247281,"date":"2024-08-28T00:47:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T19:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=247281"},"modified":"2024-08-28T00:47:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T19:17:35","slug":"dist-level-sports-meet-underway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/08\/28\/dist-level-sports-meet-underway-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dist-level sports meet underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LIKABALI, 27 Aug:<\/strong> Boys&#8217; and girls&#8217; teams from across Lower Siang district are participating in a district-level U-17 sports meet which got underway at the Chidu-Chigo ground here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing the inaugural programme, Galo Youth Organisation president Bomkar Gara emphasised the importance of promoting games and sports for the all-round development of children in schools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Sports can lead to physical fitness and employment opportunities,&#8221; he said, and commended the district administration for organising the football tournament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All Lower Siang District Students&#8217; Union president Tom Taju advised the participating teams to &#8220;embody the true spirit of sportsmanship,&#8221; and said that &#8220;the trophy carries dust, but memories last forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taju also cautioned the students against the influence of drugs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">District sports coordinator Monya Dini informed that this is the second edition of the event, aimed at &#8220;providing a platform to discover budding sports talent and promote them in state and national arenas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Government higher secondary school (GHSS) Likabali won the inaugural football match against government secondary school (GSS) Lipu with 4-2 goals in a penalty shootout in the boys&#8217; category.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the girls&#8217; category, GHSS Likabali beat GSS Liru 1-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIKABALI, 27 Aug: Boys&#8217; and girls&#8217; teams from across Lower Siang district are participating in a district-level U-17 sports meet which got underway at the Chidu-Chigo ground here on Tuesday. Addressing the inaugural programme, Galo Youth Organisation president Bomkar Gara emphasised the importance of promoting games and sports for the all-round development of children in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-247281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247281","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=247281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}