Aizawl, Feb 18: Eastern and northeastern India’s first Motorsports Racing Track would be built in Mizoram, state’s Sports and Youth Services Minister Robert Romawia Royte said on Friday.
The Minister said that to build the Rs 10 crore Motorsports Racing Track, an agreement was signed on Thursday between the government of India owned Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) and the Mizoram State Sports Council.
Happy to witness signing of Agreement between the Mizoram State Sports Council and the Rural Electrification Corporation(REC) for construction of REC Motosports Racing Tract and Sports Complex at Lengpui,Mizoram
The racing tract will be the first of its kind in Eastern India. pic.twitter.com/Er13Ts6B8d— Robert Romawia Royte (@robertroyte) February 16, 2022
Royte, who also holds the Tourism, Industries and Commerce Departments, said that the State Sports Council would make serious efforts to ensure that the constructions of the Motosports Racing Track is completed on time.
The REC officials also said that the Motorsports Racing Track would host international events in the future.
The Motorsports Racing Track would be developed at Lengpui, where the state’s lone airport is located and it is about 31 km north of capital Aizawl.
The REC, a Navratna Enterprise under the Union Power Ministry, would construct the Motosports Racing Track under its Corporate Social Responsibility funding.
The REC officials said that the work under the project includes construction of 2-km long and 6-meter wide race track, two storeyed building as well as sports complex facilities like administrative building and dressing rooms, conference hall, medical room, cafeteria, VIP room and equipment room, spectator galleries.
