Agartala: State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) will help northeastern states to boost sports and sporting talent, a company official said on Friday.<\/p>\n
Calling this a part of its corporate social responsibility, ONGC Executive Director S.C. Soni told reporters that the company had decided to help the sports sector financially and otherwise.<\/p>\n
He said ONGC had allocated Rs 24 crore to add additional infrastructure to Tripura’s Dasaratha Deb Sports stadium on the outskirts of Agartala.<\/p>\n
“There is no financial limit to helping the northeastern states in sports. The Tripura government has made a Rs 150 crore project to develop the Dasaratha Deb Sports stadium. We will help them,” he added.<\/p>\n
The company has been organising a Lucky-Srivastava Memorial Invitation Football Tournament for 20 years.<\/p>\n
In the tournament that begins on Saturday, 13 teams, including from Tripura, Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Assam Rifles, Central Reserve Police Force and Border Security Force, will take part.<\/p>\n
ONGC engineers Justin Lucky and S.K. Srivastava were killed by militants in Tripura in September 1992.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Agartala: State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) will help northeastern states to boost sports and sporting talent, a company official said on Friday.<\/p>\n
Calling this a part of its corporate social responsibility, ONGC Executive Director S.C. Soni told reporters that the company had decided to help the sports sector financially and otherwise.<\/p>\n
He said ONGC had allocated Rs 24 crore to add additional infrastructure to Tripura’s Dasaratha Deb Sports stadium on the outskirts of Agartala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[466,21303,211,12791],"class_list":["post-33219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-more-sports-more-sports","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-oil-and-natural-gas-corp","tag-ongc","tag-sports-news"],"yoast_head":"\n