By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR/ROURKELA: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of the country’s largest hockey stadium in Rourkela and named it as martyr Birsa Munda. The stadium will inspire the young community and encourage them to dream big and do big things, the Chief Minister said.
Chief Minister thanked Mission Shakti Maas of the district for their support in the developmental work by showing Sundargarh Jayanti Akka as an ideal. By describing Rourkela as a city of hope, he has sought everyone’s cooperation to continue this flow of development.
The Stadium site is located within the sprawling campus of Biju Patnaik University of Technology, one of the premier technical institutes of the State. The stadium is adjacent to the Rourkela air strip, where the commercial flights are expected to start soon.
The Stadium will be a new benchmark in global stadium design for hockey, offering one of the finest spectator experiences in the world and, with a chaired seated capacity exceeding 20000, will become the largest Hockey Stadium in India.
The stadium will be a model of green, functional, cost effective design. Designed to deliver the best match day atmospheres in the world, each seat will have uninterrupted sightlines and the spectators will be closer to the pitch than at any other hockey stadium in the world.Working closely with Hockey India, every aspect of the technical and operational compliances have been met to provide a seamless facility to host the World Cup.
