New Delhi. Today i.e. on January 2, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh and he will also lay the foundation stone of Major Dhyan Chand Sports University there. This information was given by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in a statement on Friday. Not only this, according to the PMO, this sports university will be built at a cost of Rs 700 crore in Salwa and Kali villages of Sardhana city of Meerut.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Meerut in Uttar Pradesh today and lay the foundation stone of Major Dhyan Chand Sports University
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According to the PMO in this regard, “Prime Minister Modi is continuously working towards promoting the culture of sports in the country and making sports resources world class. The step of establishing a sports university in Meerut is being taken under his vision.
Major Dhyan Chand Sports University: What will be special
- Major Dhyan Chand Sports University is being built at a cost of 700 crores.
- This university will be equipped with modern facilities.
- Here 1080 players can also be trained simultaneously.
- There will be a large seating arrangement for 25 to 30 thousand people for outdoor games like athletics.
- There will be a hall with a capacity of 5 thousand for sports like wrestling, kho-kho and kabaddi.
- This excellent university will have a synthetic hockey field, a football field.
- There will also be basketball, volleyball, handball, lawn tennis courts.
- There will also be a separate shooting range for shooting and archery.
- There will also be facilities like synthetic running stadium, swimming pool.
Know what is Prime Minister Modi’s program today…
- Today morning at 11.35 PM Modi will land at Army Helipad in Meerut.
- From here they will reach the martyr memorial in Meerut at 11.50 am.
- Then at 11.50 am, you will also see the Martyrs Memorial, Amar Jawan Jyoti and the Government Freedom Struggle Museum.
- After this he will visit Aughadnath temple at 12.15 pm.
- He will also lay the foundation stone of Major Dhyanchand Sports University in Salwa at 1 pm.
- In this foundation stone laying program, PM Modi will also address a public meeting.
- After this, he will have a meeting with the players of the country and the state here.
- After this PM Modi will leave for Delhi at 2.30 pm.
Let us tell that this excellent sports university will have many facilities for other sports including shooting, squash, gymnastics, weightlifting, archery. In this university, there will be a system of simultaneous training of 1080 players including 540 men and 540 women.