Centre to provide Rs 170 crore to Meghalaya for National Games

Shillong: Meghalaya Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Banteidor Lyngdoh on Tuesday said the Centre will provide Rs 170 crore to the state government to develop sports infrastructures for the National Games 2022. Meghalaya will be the third northeastern state, after Manipur (1999) and Assam (2007), to host the National Games. The national event will coincide with the 50th year of the creation of Meghalaya. "The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has decided to reduce the amount to Rs 170 crore only to develop sports infrastructures for the National Games 2022. They justified that the reduction was based on the conditions and requirement of the fund with the ministry," Lyngdoh said.

Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Thaawarchand Gehlot had publicly announced that his ministry would set up one of the five National Sports stadiums of international standard for differently-abled in Meghalaya at over Rs 200 crore.

However, Lyngdoh is hopeful that the Union Cabinet would give its seal of approval to sanction the amount to develop the international sports infrastructures in the state. Meghalaya's Department of Sports and Youth Affairs had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Hindustan Steelworks Construction Limited (HSCL) as the Project Management Consultant (PMC) for the development of sports infrastructures. IANS

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