Asian Athletic Association Council member W Palitha G Fernando of Colombo along with Athletic Federation of India secretary CK Valson was visited Kalinga Stadium infrastructure and met Chief Secretary of Odisha Aditiya Padhi and Sports and Youth Affairs secretary Visal Dev at Secretariat here on Thursday.
We are fully satisfied with the infrastructure here, the Government also taking special interest to organize such a mega event. The State Government showed their keen involvement to prepare the infrastructure before the month of June to host the 22nd Asian Athletics Championship here at Kalinga Stadium in the month of July, said Fernando.
The international airport along with the hotel facilities is quite good. It will not difficult to accommodate 800 athletes from 45 countries are expected to take part.
Before the event the government should ensure the completion of relaying of the exiting synthetic track and a new synthetic track for the players to warm up. Kalinga Stadium is also having an extra ground adjacent to the main ground.