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Scams and delays stall Manipur Sports University
The Statesman Kolkata
|June 06, 2025
In 2014, PM Narendra Modi announced the establishment of a National Sports University in Manipur, recognising the state's remarkable sporting talent, including over a dozen Olympians and multiple medalists, despite its small size.
The location of the site took some time, as the Congress State Government then in power dabbled with different options. Then the Meitei Village of Koutruk came forward and donated 350 acres of their village land in the foothills of the Imphal Valley. Then after Parliament passed the establishment of the NSU in 2017, construction work began. But it soon ran into rough water even as the powers that were at the helm of affairs at the NSU syphoned off more than five crores in rupees in the name of the construction of the ground where PM Modi was to have laid the foundation stone of the
This story is from the June 06, 2025 edition of The Statesman Kolkata.
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