Arunachal signs MOU for free land for NIMAS

Arunachal Pradesh government has signed an MOU with the Union Defence Ministry to provide free of cost land for establishment of the National Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports (NIMAS) at Dirang in West Kameng district of the state.

NIMAS, an institute of Defence Ministry, was sanctioned by the Centre last year to groom talents in mountaineering and allied sports.

The state government was represented by Sports and Youth Affairs Director D K Dinglow and the Ministry was represented by the Director of the Institute Gulshan Chadha during MoU signing ceremony here yesterday, official sources said.

NIMAS would train people from home and abroad.

The executive council of the Institute is headed by Defence Minister A K Anthony as President and Chief Minister Nabam Tuki as Vice President, the sources said.