{"id":280203,"date":"2026-03-26T00:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=280203"},"modified":"2026-03-26T00:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:00:24","slug":"world-class-football-stadium-to-come-up-in-itanagar-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/world-class-football-stadium-to-come-up-in-itanagar-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"World-class football stadium to come up in Itanagar: CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>YUPIA, 25 Mar:<\/strong> Chief Minister Pema Khandu said that a world-class football stadium at Itanagar has been sanctioned under the Prime Minister&#8217;s Development Initiative for North East Region at an estimated cost of Rs. 200 crore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He made the announcement after kicking off the U-23 tri-football friendlies at the Golden Jubilee Outdoor Stadium here on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He stated that construction work is set to commence within this year. He further highlighted the government&#8217;s continued efforts toward strengthening sports infrastructure and nurturing sporting talent across the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former national football team captain Sunil Chetry encouraged the youth to take sports seriously and strive for excellence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The opening match was being played between Bhutan and Tajikistan at the time of filing this report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">India will take on Bhutan on 28 March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The inaugural ceremony was also attended by Sports Minister Kento Jini. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YUPIA, 25 Mar: Chief Minister Pema Khandu said that a world-class football stadium at Itanagar has been sanctioned under the Prime Minister&#8217;s Development Initiative for North East Region at an estimated cost of Rs. 200 crore. He made the announcement after kicking off the U-23 tri-football friendlies at the Golden Jubilee Outdoor Stadium here on [&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-280203","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\/280203","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=280203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280208,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280203\/revisions\/280208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}