Bhubaneswar
Debabrata MohantyThe Odisha govt will award 1 crore each and every to contributors of the Indian males’s hockey staff if it wins the fifteenth World Cup starting subsequent week in Bhubaneswar and Rourkela.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik made the announcement in a while after he inaugurated the Birsa Munda hockey stadium in Rourkela the place 20 of the 44 suits can be performed within the event between January 13 and 29.
India have received the lads’s World Cup as soon as in 1975 when the staff led by means of Ajit Pal Singh beat Pakistan 2-1 within the ultimate held in Kuala Lumpur. Patnaik who met the India staff, mentioned the Birsa Munda Stadium can be instrumental in making India a hockey powerhouse. “It will encourage many budding gamers of the rustic and the sector. The stadium can be Odisha’s largest reward to the country,” he said after inaugurating the 261-crore stadium that may dangle 20,000 spectators.
The stadium, named after freedom fighter Birsa Munda and constructed on 15 acres of land, will host India’s first fit, in opposition to Spain on January 13. FIH, the governing frame for world hockey, had set a situation that two host towns will have to be made to be had To set up World Cup. Following this, Patnaik sanctioned the development of a brand spanking new hockey stadium in Rourkela in February 2021.
While the quarter-finals, semi-finals, and ultimate can be performed on the Kalinga Stadium, classification suits can be performed on the Birsa Munda Stadium.
Patnaik additionally inaugurated the World Cup Village, which has 225 rooms, on the stadium complicated. It will area the gamers and groups’ enhance personnel. Some distinctive options of the stadium come with a connecting tunnel between the dressing room and the adjoining apply pitch, a separate health centre, a swimming pool.
This is the fourth time India is webhosting the lads’s World Cup. The 1982 version was once held in Mumbai whilst New Delhi hosted it in 2010. The 14th version was once held in Bhubaneswar in 2018.