Shaheed Manoranjan football
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 28 2011:
YEFA, Yurembam and TBSFAT, Taobungkhok will play the opening match of the 2nd Shaheed Manoranjan Singh memorial CRPF football tournament on November 30 at Langjing Achouba football ground.
In all 15 local teams will vie for the top honour of the tournament which will offer Rs 30,000 to the champion team, Rs 20,000 to the runners-up side and Rs 3000 each to winner of best player, best scorer and best goalkeeper awards.
A CRPF statement also informed that a raffle draw will be held on December 9 to commemorate the tournament, which will played on knock-out format.
The tournament is being organised in remembrance of the supreme sacrifice made by 201 Cobra Battalion's Assistant Commandant N Manoranjan Singh while fighting Naxalites on September 18, 2009 in Chhatisgarh.