Multi-Utility Outdoor Stadium inaugurated at Sungratsu

Mokokchung, April 29 (EMN): A Multi-Utility Outdoor Stadium at Sungratsu Sports Complex was dedicated by Keihungle, wife of Late Dr. Imtiwapang Aier, former MLA, near Impur junction on Saturday.

According to the Complex Committee report, Nungsangenba Longchar informed that the Sungratsu Sports Complex commenced through a resolution passed by the Sungratsu Senso Mungdang in 2000.

After an MoU was inked with the land donors on May 2001, earth-moving and leveling was purely funded by donations from Sungratsu Village Council and well-wishers with an estimate cost of INR 20, 39, 000; and Sungratsu Sports Complex was inaugurated on May 2011 by former MLA Nungsangyapang.

Physical infrastructures (Multi-Utility Outdoor Stadium) in the complex were initiated by Late Dr. Imtiwapang Aier funded under North Eastern Council and implemented by RMSA.

Keihungle, in her address, said that her late husband was very enthusiastic for the development of Multi-Utility Outdoor Stadium at Sungratsu Sports Complex because he believed that the complex will bear fruit for the people in future days to come.

She also acknowledged the unity of the people of Sungratsu to self-fund the construction of Sungartsu Sports Complex, adding that the unity projected by the people should be a continuous process.

 “I believe, in the long run, the complex will not only felicitate sports activities and grooming of sportspersons but also provide income generation avenues for the downtrodden people during various events held in the complex,” she said.

Earlier, dedicatory prayer was pronounced by I Kilen Longchar Pastor Sungratsu Baptist Church while Lemasashi Ozukum, president of Sungratsu Senso Mungdang and C Wati Walling Convener Tourism and Ground Committee also spoke at the event.