SIKKIM TO GIVE LAND PLOT TO BHAICHUNG BHUTIA FOR FOOTBALL ACADEMY

Gangtok:  The State government of Sikkim has asked football icon Bhaichung Bhutia to select and finalize the required land in Pakyong for his proposed football academy.
“We have 600 acres of land at Pakyong and have asked Bhaichung to see and select the land for his academy. We will give him the land and that will be our support to him”, said Chief Minister Dr. Pawan Chamling in a recent media interaction.
CM further informed that “the government had already allocated land to Bhaichung at Aapbotey near Namchi but he wanted land in Pakyong and so we have asked him to select land there”.
Setting up a football academy in Sikkim is a dream project of Bhaichung and he has been working with the government on this project for the past couple of years. The football academy will produce national level footballers from Sikkim, he had recently said.