Railways investing heavily in sports infrastructure across Northeast
The HinduThe Northeast Frontier Railway is investing heavily in sports infrastructure to produce ace athletes from a “large pool of raw talents”. “We have in the last six months completed a gymnasium of international standard, a weightlifting arena with competition and practice platforms, a physiotherapy room for sportspersons and an indoor cricket hall with Astroturf and bowling machines,” NFR’s general manager Anshul Gupta said. “We have also taken up a multipurpose stadium project in Dibrugarh while work on the National Centre of Excellence, a joint venture with the Sports Authority of India, at Cooch Behar is in progress,” Gupta said. Joint ventures are being formed with the governments of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Mizoram for a multipurpose sports complex each,” Rajiv Mahajan, the president of NFR Sports Association said.
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