Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Cabinet on Tuesday (March 23) permitted the “State Level Sports Infrastructure Development Project” for the event of sports activities infrastructure at Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar, and International Hockey Stadium, Rourkela.
The mission with an estimated outlay of Rs 356.38 crores is supposed for the event of infrastructure at Kalinga Stadium and the development of a brand new hockey stadium at Rourkela to conduct FIH Men’s World Cup Hockey 2023.
Odisha is the host for the FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup-2023 with venues at Bhubaneswar and Rourkela.
For this objective, a brand new International Hockey Stadium is meant to be developed at Rourkela with a seated capability of 20,000 spectators.
This would be the largest hockey stadium in India, in response to an official assertion. The State authorities has established High-Performance Centres (HPCs) in numerous sports activities disciplines at Kalinga Stadium in partnership with numerous corporates and elite sportspersons.
The infrastructure for these HPCs is the duty of the State authorities. In order to cater to the requirement of the HPCs and different sports activities disciplines, growth and up-gradation of the infrastructure amenities at Kalinga Stadium can even be made, learn the assertion.
In view of this, “State-level Sports Infrastructure Development Project” has been conceptualised having two elements to it together with growth of Kalinga Stadium Sports Complex and development of a brand new International Hockey Stadium in Rourkela, Out of the whole estimated price of Rs 356.38 crores, Rs 90 crores will likely be allotted by the budgetary allocation of State authorities spreading throughout three monetary years ranging from 2020-21.
The remaining quantity is to be funded by Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), District Mineral Foundation, Sundargarh and Odisha Sports Development Fund (OSDF).
The mission will likely be accomplished in 16 (Sixteen) months time.
