Imphal, June 12: The National Sports Academy is all set for a grand launch at the Khuman Lampak Sports Complex here next month.

The academy will offer coaching facilities in five disciplines — archery, boxing, judo, taekwondo and wrestling — from July 1.

The Manipur youth affairs and sports affairs department has already given out information on the preliminary selection procedure of the academy for the 2007-08 session to its units and education offices in the rest of the country.

Those born after January 1, 1996, are eligible to enrol. While 50 per cent of seats are reserved for state athletes, the rest will be open to outstation students and players.

The department has set June 25 as the admission date for boys and girls selected. Initially 30 boys and as many girls, preferably students of Class VI, will be admitted. Classes will be held at the State Youth Centre and accommodation will be provided at the state youth hostel. After the full-fledged building comes up, the academy will have 468 trainees. Until the academy’s own infrastructure is completed, existing facilities within the Khuman Lampak complex will be utilised.

The DoNER ministry has already sanctioned Rs 18 crore for the venture.

Once the academy comes up, some of the structures at Khuman Lampak, including State Kala Akademi and an India Reserve Battalion post, are likely to be shifted.

The State Kala Akademi office will be relocated to the Palace Compound.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during his visit to Manipur in December, laid the foundation stone of the academy symbolically from Kangla Fort.