IMPHAL, Dec 21 (NNN): Manipur chief minister N. Biren Singh announced to increase the incentives awarded to medal winners of Commonwealth Games (CWG) and National Games. He made the announcement while attending the felicitation ceremony of the medal winners and participants of the 36th National Games-2022, Gujarat and 2nd North East Olympic Games-2022, Shillong held on Tuesday at Khuman Lampak Sports Complex, Imphal.
The chief minister informed that the incentives awarded to Gold medallists of CWG will be increased from Rs. 15 lakhs to Rs. 20 lakhs, Silver medallists from Rs. 10 lakhs to Rs. 15 lakhs and that of participants will be provided Rs. 4 lakhs.
Regarding the National Games, he announced that incentives for individual players winning Gold medal will be increased from Rs. 3 lakhs to Rs. 5 lakhs, for Silver medallist from Rs. 2 lakhs to Rs. 3 lakhs and for Bronze medallist from Rs. 1 lakh to Rs. 2 lakhs. For the team, the incentives for Gold, Silver and Bronze medals will be increased to Rs. 15 lakhs, Rs. 10 lakhs and Rs. 5 lakhs respectively, he added.
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Acknowledging the efforts of coaches for the achievements of players, N. Biren also announced to increase incentives for coaches from Rs. 5 lakhs to Rs. 7 lakhs for Gold, from Rs. 3 lakhs to Rs. 5 lakhs for Silver and that of Bronze from Rs. 1 lakh to Rs. 3 lakhs.
He further assured that the Government will take up necessary actions in consultation with the Youth and Affairs ministers for implementation of the same at the earliest.
The chief minister maintained that the objective of the State Government is to create avenues for the people and support them. Stating that achievement-oriented thinking is very important for carrying out a task, he mentioned that the Government is putting in every effort to develop infrastructures of various sectors including games and sports.
- Biren also stated the Government has initiated the process of increasing the sitting capacity of the gallery of Khuman Lampak Main Stadium to around 70,000. He deliberated on the plan to construct a stadium with crowd capacity of 1 lakh and mentioned the identification of land measuring 50 acres at Imphal West district for the same.
He further informed that the Manipur Olympian Park which is being developed at Sangaithel would be inaugurated soon and Union Home minister Amit Shah had been invited to inaugurate it. He spoke on the Chief Minister’s Akhannaba Sanaroisingi Tengbang (CMAST) scheme launched for the welfare of the State’s sportsperson.
The chief minister urged young athletes of the State not just to aim for getting a Government job after winning medals in National events, rather aim for the Olympic Games. He added that the Government would also discuss matters relating to providing jobs to Gold medal winning players at the national level.
