{"id":254849,"date":"2025-01-07T01:37:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T20:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=254849"},"modified":"2025-01-07T01:37:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T20:07:32","slug":"retd-sports-officer-meitei-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/retd-sports-officer-meitei-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Retd sports officer Meitei passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>CHIMPU, 6 Jan:<\/strong> The sports &amp; youth affairs department&#8217;s retired sports officer Oinam Boby Meitei passed away in Imphal, Manipur, on 4 January.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is survived by his wife, a daughter and a son.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meitei had joined the erstwhile Arunachal Pradesh State Sports Council as an LDC in 1987. He had served as a football coach for seven years from 1987, before being promoted to the post of sports officer in 1994.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meitei retired from service in February, 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He did his graduation in bachelor of physical education and diploma in football coaching from Sant Gagde Baba Amravati University, Maharashtra.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a technically qualified coach, Meitei produced numerous national- and international-level football players and contributed a lot to promotion and development of sports in Arunachal Pradesh, the state&#8217;s sports directorate said in a release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The officers and staff of the sports and youth affairs department deeply mourned the passing away of Meitei.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a condolence meeting here on Monday, they observed two minutes of silence in memory and honour of late Meitei, and prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHIMPU, 6 Jan: The sports &amp; youth affairs department&#8217;s retired sports officer Oinam Boby Meitei passed away in Imphal, Manipur, on 4 January. He is survived by his wife, a daughter and a son. Meitei had joined the erstwhile Arunachal Pradesh State Sports Council as an LDC in 1987. He had served as a football [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-254849","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\/254849","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=254849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}