The Hindu 19.01.2010
Meeting discusses indoor stadium construction proposal
Staff Reporter
| Complex to come up under public-private partnership |
. — Photo: M.Balaji . 
MAKING A POINT: Tirupur District Collector C. Samayamoorthy (left) speaking at a meeting an Wednesday to plan the construction of a stadium. Minister for Highways M.P. Swaminathan (second left) and Tirupur Mayor K. Selvaraj (third left) are in the picture
Tirupur: Minister for Highways M. P. Saminathan convened a meeting of senior officials and representatives of various sports associations here recently to evolve plans to construct an indoor stadium complex in the city on public-private partnership (PPP) mode.
Suggestion
It was proposed by the associations that the stadium coming up should be of international standards if it had to serve its real purpose.
The suggestion came in the wake of the prior plan conceptualised by the Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu (SDAT) to construct an indoor stadium at a cost of Rs. one crore on PPP mode.
Multiple sports
“Instead of a small indoor stadium at Rs. one crore, it will be a wise idea to built an international-standard stadium at a cost of Rs. five crore with facilities to conduct multiple sports disciplines and having huge seating capacity,” some of the sports association members pointed out.
Outdoor sports
The meeting also explored the possibilities of constructing a state-of-the-art stadium for outdoor sports in the future.
Collector C. Samayamoorthy, Mayor K. Selvaraj and District Revenue Officer K. V. Muralitharan tok part in the meeting.
