Guwahati, May 7: The Guwahati Sports Association (GSA) today resolved to move Dispur to get the right to run and maintain the Nehru Stadium and its adjoining indoor stadia in the RG Baruah Sports Complex here.

Electing a new working committee for the 2006-08 term, the GSA today set gaining right over the ground as the top-priority agenda for the next two years.

The GSA will submit a memorandum citing its demand as soon as the new government assumes office later this month. The demand will include possession of the Kanaklata Indoor Stadium and the Abita Centenary Indoor Hall along with the Nehru Stadium by the GSA.

?We are the only district body in the entire state which is most active in sporting activities and yet do not have our own ground. So we are determined to possess a ground for ourselves,? said GSA joint secretary Ibocha Singh.

The GSA will furnish all ?documentary evidence? endorsing its demand to gain control over the sports infrastructure. The Nehru Stadium and the indoor stadia are currently looked after and maintained by the Board of Sports of Assam.

?We have always been discussing about possession of a ground for our use every annual general meeting. However, this time we are resolved to possess one and it will have to be the Nehru Stadium because we are the rightful owner of the ground,? said GSA member and former Assam Olympic Association secretary Munin Nabis.

?We have documentary evidence that the Nehru Stadium ground belonged to us and we will produce it as and when necessary,? Nabis, who is the first ever elected representative from the Northeast in the Indian Olympic Association, added. The lack of a ground of its own often forces the GSA to cancel its cricket and football leagues. Besides, the GSA has been deprived of the Assam Cricket Association grants for development of cricket infrastructure for being not in possession of a ground.

In another resolution, president-elect J.K. Bora called for total revamp in all the eight disciplines adopted by the district body. He asked all the sectional secretaries to place progress reports with him in review meetings to be convened every month. The sectional secretaries have also been asked to submit development schemes in their respective sections for financial support from the GSA?s funds.

This is for the first time in 49 years of its existence that the GSA reached a consensus in electing its working committee without any contest.

Bora replaced Rana Goswami as the president while Paresh Das became the general secretary.