Mizoram Cabinet Grants ‘Industry’ status to Sports

The northeastern state of Mizoram has accorded ‘industry’ status to sports, to professionalise and recognise sports as an ‘industry’ in the state.
The state Sports minister Robert Romawia Royte has said that Mizoram is the first state in the country to take this historic decision.
Through this status, the state aims to attract private companies to invest in sports so that it will benefit the state in terms of subsidy, loans and concessions, as well as facilitate the generation of employment in the sports sector.