Kolkata’s First Sports-Mall Complex

February 23, 2007	(1 votes, average: 1 out of 5)  Loading ...
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Ashok Bhattacharya, municipal affairs and urban development minister laid the foundation stone for the first sports complex, which will come up as a public private partnership (PPP) between the Merlin group and Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) at Kasba in the southern fringe of the Kolkata.

This new sports complex will be called as the Rajdanga Sports cum Commercial Complex, and will feature a huge field to host games like football, hockey and cricket. However, there are no plans to lay a track for athletes in the field yet.

The complex would certainly emerge as the ideal place for budding sportsmen. Also, it would also be used for organizing small sports events and indoor games.

KMDA is also drawing plans to come up with a water park in proximity to Ruby Hospital off the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass and offer former ace swimmer Bula Chowdhury a free hand to run a swimming academy.

Incorporating the investment over Rs. 200 crore, the Rajdanga Complex will serve as a money spinner for the Kolkata government.

KMDA would earn revenues by selling space in commercial and office blocks, while the Kolkata Municipal Corporation would get around Rs 12 crore as sanction fees, say promoters.

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