With the aim to give a fillip to sports sector in Uttar Pradesh, the Akhilesh Yadav Government signed an MoU with Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association for handing over the Green Park Stadium in Kanpur to the UPCA, while another memorandum of understanding was signed to speed up construction of international standard cricket stadium in lucknow.
Both the MoUs were signed on Wednesday. The MoU for Green Park stadium was signed between Principal Secretary (Sports) Anita Bhatnagar Jain and UPCA Secretary Rajiv Shukla while the second MoU was signed between UPCA and Ekana Sports City, the developer constructing the lucknow Stadium on PPP model.
CM Akhilesh Yadav, who was present on the occasion, said that UP would soon turn into a sporting hub “as there would be sporting facilities on par with the best in the country”.