Odisha CM announces India’s largest hockey stadium in Rourkela

Odisha CM announces India’s largest hockey stadium in Rourkela
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The preparations for the FIH Odisha Men’s Hockey World Cup India 2023 have kickstarted and are in full swing as Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik announced India’s largest hockey stadium in Rourkela city. The new world-class stadium would have a capacity of 20 thousand.

This stadium might in all probability go on to to redefine the sports landscape of the region. The stadium with it’s allied facilities is to be developed as a benchmark for other hockey stadiums around the world. It will spread over 15 acres of land at the Biju Patnaik University of Technology campus, Rourkela.

The stadium will have all modern amenities

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Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced the news through a video message. “As we have announced earlier, Odisha will once again be the proud host of the prestigious Men’s Hockey World Cup in 2023. The tournament will be organized both in Bhubaneswar and Rourkela. Sundargarh district is our powerhouse of Hockey Talent. Many great hockey players from the district have represented the country at the international level,” he said.

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The new stadium will have all the modern amenities and will offer a unique experience. Recently, a high level team including senior officials from the State Government, International Federation of Hockey (FIH), Department of Sports and Youth Services and Hockey India had visited Rourkela. They reviewed the infrastructure and the allied facilities in the city to conduct the prestigious and much-awaited Hockey World Cup.

The work to develop synthetic hockey turf in each of the 17 blocks at Sundargarh district has already commenced.

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