{"id":80242,"date":"2019-09-30T01:56:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T20:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=80242"},"modified":"2019-09-30T01:56:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T20:26:50","slug":"min-sai-dg-visit-site-for-sag-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/min-sai-dg-visit-site-for-sag-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Min, SAI DG visit site for SAG centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RAKAP, Sep 29:<\/strong> Youth Affairs &amp; Sports Minister Mama Natung, along with Sports Authority of India (SAI) Director General Sandeep Pradhan and the SAI&#8217;s Regional Director Subbash Basumatary, visited the proposed permanent site for the special area games (SAG) centre here in Papum Pare district on Sunday.<br \/>\nPradhan is on a visit to Arunachal to assess the feasibility of establishing a centre of excellence in boxing, weightlifting and martial arts in the state. Union MoS for Youth Affairs &amp; Sports, Kiren Rijiju, had announced the establishment of the centre during his visit to Itanagar, along with the ministry&#8217;s secretary, in early July this year.<br \/>\nSeeking support from Pradhan, Natung said, &#8220;We want to bring our youths to the mainstream through sports. However, to realize this dream and take sports to new heights, I need your support and guidance.&#8221; He said having such a centre is significant for grooming sportspersons.<br \/>\nThe minister also gave assurance that he would initiate policies oriented towards the welfare of the state&#8217;s sportspersons. However, he sought support from the SAI DG to turn the proposals into reality.<br \/>\nResponding to Natung&#8217;s request, Pradhan said, &#8220;I am confident, and I hope we will be able to start the centre of excellence. Whatever we decide will be executed nicely.&#8221;<br \/>\nSports Director Tadar Appa submitted a 10-point memorandum to the SAI DG, seeking, among other things, starting the centre of excellence temporarily at the Sangay Lhaden Sports Academy, until the full-fledged infrastructure comes up.<br \/>\nAppa also advocated promoting indigenous and tribal games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAKAP, Sep 29: Youth Affairs &amp; Sports Minister Mama Natung, along with Sports Authority of India (SAI) Director General Sandeep Pradhan and the SAI&#8217;s Regional Director Subbash Basumatary, visited the proposed permanent site for the special area games (SAG) centre here in Papum Pare district on Sunday. Pradhan is on a visit to Arunachal to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80242","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\/80242","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=80242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}