Sporting events help budding players to hone their skills in Manipur

Manipur is known for producing many good sportspersons and the reason behind that is the number of sporting events that are organized across the state.

The Assam Rifles recently organized an archery competition at its archery range in Imphal. As many as seventy two archers from 16 teams participated in the individual and team events at the competition.

The competition which was organized to help budding players hone their talent was won by the Assam Rifles archery team.

Nepram Arjun Singh, an archer, said that the event has helped the archers a great deal.

"This is a very good experience. It's very helpful for us. We got lots of experience because many clubs are participating together and we are competing. So we had a good experience," Singh said.

Similarly, the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports of Government of Manipur held a football competition to improve the standard of football in schools.

Twenty teams from various states participated in the five day long football championship held at Khuman Lampak Main Stadium in Imphal.

"The game of football is finally picking up in India. And Northeast is doing much better in football and Manipur, Meghalaya and Mizoram give most of the players. This time our focus will be more on women's games and especially U-17 and U-19 football," said Director of Youth Affairs and Sports department N Ashok Kumar.

Events like these help the sports authorities to identify the young talents who can later be trained for international events.