{"id":38397,"date":"2018-07-29T01:55:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T20:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=38397"},"modified":"2018-07-29T01:55:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T20:25:10","slug":"take-up-sports-professionally-dr-chai-exhorts-youths-of-ne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/07\/29\/take-up-sports-professionally-dr-chai-exhorts-youths-of-ne\/","title":{"rendered":"Take up sports professionally, Dr Chai exhorts youths of NE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>GUWAHATI (Assam), Jul 28:<\/strong> Arunachal Pradesh Sports &amp; Youth Affairs Minister Dr Mohesh Chai exhorted the youths of the Northeast region to take up sports professionally, saying that in today&#8217;s world, sports have emerged as a multi-billion-dollar global industry.<br \/>\n&#8220;New avenues like IPL, Pro Kabaddi League, Premier Badminton League, ISL, etc, have proved to be gargantuan revenue generators of the governing bodies like BCCI and others, including the players,&#8221; Dr Chai said, addressing the students and faculty members of the Laxmi Bai National Institute of Physical Education (LNIPE) in the institute&#8217;s multipurpose indoor hall here on Saturday.<br \/>\n&#8220;Development of sports throughout the country is one of the flagship programmes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and NE region is one the of special focus areas,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n&#8220;Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Pema Khandu has initiated major reforms for overall development of sports in his state, and many more are in the pipeline,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nDr Chai visited the premier sports institution of the region to gather first-hand information about the quality of stadiums and scientific sports equipment it has, so that the same can be developed in his state.<br \/>\nSpeaking on the importance and contribution of the LNIPE, Sports Authority of India Regional Director Dr Subash Basumatary shared with the minister his experiences in promoting sports across the region.<br \/>\nAssociate professor Dr Sankar Joyti Basumatary said Dr Chai was the first sports minister from Arunachal Pradesh to visit the LNIPE, &#8220;and such visit and interaction with the students and faculties will greatly inspire the young sportspersons.&#8221;<br \/>\nLater, Dr Chai visited the institute&#8217;s field of play, in the company of Sports Authority of Arunachal Chairman Bamang Tago and Arunachal State Badminton Association joint secretary Penya Bagra.<br \/>\nEarlier, the minister and the SAA chairman visited the SAI regional office here, and its field of play, including the Sarusajai sports complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI (Assam), Jul 28: Arunachal Pradesh Sports &amp; Youth Affairs Minister Dr Mohesh Chai exhorted the youths of the Northeast region to take up sports professionally, saying that in today&#8217;s world, sports have emerged as a multi-billion-dollar global industry. &#8220;New avenues like IPL, Pro Kabaddi League, Premier Badminton League, ISL, etc, have proved to be [&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-38397","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\/38397","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=38397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}