Shillong, Dec 2: The Chief Minister of Meghalaya Conrad Ok Sangma launched the Sports Scholarship Scheme and in addition felicitated the medal winners and coaches of the 2nd North East Olympics Games 2022 at U Soso Tham Auditorium right here on Friday.

We hope that this monetary help will go a good distance in encouraging athletes to excel of their fields and future sportspersons to take up sports activities.

— Conrad Sangma (@SangmaConrad) December 2, 2022

Happy that numerous competitions held within the State just like the Meghalaya Games and the latest @neolygames is giving our athletes the platform to compete with one another & with athletes from different States. These competitions will spark their competitiveness & encourage them additional. pic.twitter.com/lDX17sXFu7

— Conrad Sangma (@SangmaConrad) December 2, 2022

188 athletes and 54 officers have been felicitated by the Chief Minister on the programme.

“The scholarship program started today is basically a monthly scholarship amount to be sent to the personal account of the athletes. The idea is whoever gets a medal at the regional competition or at a national competition, the government will not only give them a one time amount but a monthly amount as a scholarship to support themselves and be able to invest in their different needs. It is an incentive for sports persons to do better,” mentioned the CM.

“The incentive will start from this games itself, so all the medal winners who are being felicitated today (will get the scholarship). This may be a small amount but this will at least give an incentive for them to continue the things that they like to do and look how to be better in the days to come,” he added.

It could also be talked about that Meghalaya ranked 4th on the 2nd North East Olympics Games 2022. The State bagged 149 medals, simply 3 medals behind the state of Arunachal which was positioned at third spot. Meghalaya received 36 golds, 35 silvers and 78 bronze medals.