Srinagar, June 24: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister of Youth Affairs & Sports Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya for approving Jammu and Kashmir’s first National Centre of Excellence at Awantipora, Pulwama.
Taking to X, the LG said the NCOE will serve as a premier national centre for High Altitude Sports and various athletic competitions, besides skilling thousands of youth in multiple sports disciplines.
The facilities at the NCOE campus will include athletics tracks, indoor courts, football turf, hockey turfs, kabaddi and kho-kho courts, shooting range, swimming pool, taekwondo hall, an integrated strength & conditioning and rehab complex, hostels, a sports science centre, and a sports medicine centre.
“This state-of-the-art Centre will bring world-class infrastructure and elite coaching right to our Union Territory, training the next generation of Olympic and international champions,” LG Sinha wrote.
The project is expected to give a major boost to sports infrastructure in J&K and nurture talent from the region for national and international competitions.
