105th birth anniversary of late Sagolsem Indramani
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 02 2012:
The 105th birth anniversary of late Sagolsem Indramani was celebrated at the premises of All Manipur Mentally Handicapped Welfare Organisation, Mongshangei yesterday.
Offering floral tribute to the photograph of late pioneer of physical culture and distribution of sports material and rations were the main highlights of the celebration organised by Oja Indramani Memorial Trust.
Speakers of the function remembered the life and works of Indramani.
Sagolsem Indramani laid the foundation for body building, boxing, weightlifting in Manipur in the 1940s.He set up Manipur Man Building Institute (MMBI) which organised Mr Manipur and Miss Manipur contests for the first time in Manipur in 1949-50 .
He established three High Schools and one orphanage.
S Indramani was also a pioneer of nature cure movement in Manipur, started practicing nature cure in 1930s.In the programme, four badminton rackets, two handballs, one each of shuttle cock tube, football, volleyball, volleyball net and badminton net, 5 kgs of rice, 10 kgs of pulses, one bag of potato, 10 litres of mustard oil, 100 cakes and 100 pieces of squash (lichi) were handed over to the hostel authority.