{"id":175526,"date":"2026-03-11T18:24:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=175526"},"modified":"2026-03-11T18:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:54:38","slug":"guwahati-to-get-high-performance-sports-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/guwahati-to-get-high-performance-sports-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Guwahati to get high-performance sports centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Assam\u2019s Directorate of Sports &amp; Youth Welfare, in partnership with the Inspire Institute of Sport, will set up a High-Performance Satellite Sports Centre in Guwahati to strengthen elite sports development in the state and the Northeast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The centre will anchor high-performance initiatives across seven priority sports \u2014 athletics, archery, taekwondo, table tennis, lawn tennis, chess and swimming, with focused emphasis on athlete identification, coaching development and long-term performance pathways aligned with India\u2019s Olympic ambitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A High-Performance Satellite Sports Centre will be established in Guwahati, Assam.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The centre aims to develop and train athletes from the Northeast region with advanced sports facilities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It will function as a satellite centre linked with national high-performance sports programmes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The facility will provide modern training infrastructure, sports science support, and coaching.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The initiative is intended to identify and nurture talented athletes at the grassroots level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assam\u2019s Directorate of Sports &amp; Youth Welfare, in partnership with the Inspire Institute of Sport, will set up a High-Performance Satellite Sports Centre in Guwahati to strengthen elite sports development in the state and the Northeast. The centre will anchor high-performance initiatives across seven priority sports \u2014 athletics, archery, taekwondo, table tennis, lawn tennis, chess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":175527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5399],"tags":[2996,59],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-175526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-january-2026","tag-assam-current-affairs-2","tag-sports-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175528,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175526\/revisions\/175528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175526"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=175526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}