Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, June 04 2009:
AS PART of the Army's effforts to win the hearts� and minds of the people and also to project people friendly image of the secuurity.
forces, the General Offficer Commanding (GOC) of 57 Moutain Division, Major General Shakti Guurung, VSM has handed over the third phase of the Singghat model village.
A press release from the PIB (Defence Wing) stated that developing insurgency.
tom Singhat as a model villlage was the dream of exxArmy Chief, General JJ Singh, who had earlier innaugurated the first two phasses of the project in June 2006 .
With the completion of the third phase of the projct, the entire model village project under 'Op Sadhbhawna' has been completed.
In the first phase boys and girls hostel and vocational training centre were deveoped and in the second phase renovation of the community hall, water harvesting, supply scheme and provision of books for the library were carried out.
General Sakti Gurung, VSM a keen sportsman himself, while handing over the third phase, which includes a Football Stadium and Sports Centre, urged the locals, specially the youths to utilise the facilities to hone their sporting talent and expressed hope that theremote village will someday be able to produce sportsmen of national and international repute.
The GOC also kicked off the inter village football tournament which was organised by 30 Assam Rifles to commemorate the occasion.
The locals expressed their heartfelt gratitude to the GOC and the Commandant of 30 Assam Rifles for their unfettered efforts to support the villages of Singhat Sub-division and promised unflinching support in defeating the menace of insurgency and bring back normalcy to the area, the press release added.