Sports academies in Nagaland have 211 students

• KOHIMA — Under the Department of Youth Resources and Sports in Nagaland, there are two sports academies: the Sports Academy Indira Gandhi (IG) Stadium, Kohima, and the State Sports Academy Dimapur, with a total of 211 students enrolled.
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• The data provided by the department in the administrative report for 2024-25 shows that there are 146 students from different disciplines enrolled in the Sports Academy IG Stadium, Kohima, and 65 students enrolled in the State Sports Academy Dimapur, as of March 2025.
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• The data also shows that at IG Stadium, there are 74 girls, 72 boys, and 10 coaches from various disciplines. In the Sports Academy Dimapur, there are 33 girls, 32 boys, and 6 coaches.

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• Further details about the distribution across disciplines show that at IG Stadium, Kohima, there are 17 boys and 17 girls in archery, 32 girls in football, 30 boys in taekwondo, 15 boys and 15 girls in wrestling, and 10 boys and 10 girls in boxing. There are also two coaches for archery, three coaches each for football and boxing, and one coach each for taekwondo and wrestling.
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• Under the State Sports Academy Dimapur, there are 18 girls in athletics, 32 boys in football, and 15 girls in sepaktakraw. There are also two coaches for each discipline.
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• The department also stated that, at present, it has 25 coaches in 15 disciplines and eight physical instructors for schools. It also mentioned that the department has 10 top priority disciplines, with special emphasis placed on football, archery, taekwondo, sepaktakraw, boxing, athletics, badminton, table tennis, and cricket.
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• It was also mentioned that the department has 23 associations, namely archery, athletics, badminton, basketball, boxing, football, handball, hockey, kabaddi, kho-kho, Muay Thai, rifle, sepaktakraw, softball, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, volleyball, weightlifting, wushu, wrestling, and fencing, which are affiliated with the Nagaland Olympic Association.