The Shaeed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium is almost set for the mega Indian Premier league (IPl) cricket event to be hosted for the first time by Chhattisgarh at Parsada village in Naya Raipur on April 28 and May 1 this year, informed in an official statement issued here on Wednesday. State Chief Secretary Sunil Kumar on Wednesday held a high-level meeting for a review of the preparations made at the stadium for the IPl matches.
The Chief Secretary, during the meeting , issued a series of directions to the senior officials such as establishment of a Control Room for disaster management, ambulance facility, deployment of medical team, security arrangements at the parking lot and arrangement of buses for transport of people from the parking lot to the stadium and free distribution of ‘drinking water pouches’ at all the gates of the stadium.
Moreover, on the advice of the Cricketing Consultant, Kumar directed that insurance be done for costly equipment such as High Mast light, Electronic Score Board, Public Address System, CCTV Camera, sofa. TV and Refrigerator from national level insurance companies. Principal Secretary, PWD, R P Mandal informed in the meeting that preparations for the IPl matches are almost complete.
He said that the process of installing 19,200 chairs in the upper gallery and 27,000 chairs in the lower gallery had been completed at the stadium. This apart, the work on installation of ‘Synchronizing Panel’ for a total of six ‘High Mast’ had been completed and had also been connected to the Diesel Generator (DG) set, Mandal said.
He said that the work on setting up ‘Corporate Box’, Player Dressing Room, Media Center, Broadcasting Room and Pavilion on the first, second , third and fourth floor of the stadium have been completed. He said that a total of 84 CCTV cameras had been installed in the stadium and an additional 16 cameras would get installed by April 20.
To ensure high security at the stadium, a total of 3,000 policemen would be deployed. This, apart, spraying of pesticides and other pest control solutions had been done to keep off mosquitoes and other insects in the stadium. Moreover, during the commercial break , there would be free broadcast of films based on Chhattisgarh by the IPl Organising Committee.
The meeting was attended by – Director General of Police, Ramnivas Yadav, Additional Chief Secretary, Finance, D S Mishra, Principal Secretary, Agriculture and Co-operatives , Ajay Singh, Principal Secretary, Home, N K Aswaal, Principal Secretary, PWD, Sports and Youth Welfare R P Mandal, Principal Secretary, Culture and Tourism, KDP Rao, Secretary, Energy, Aman Singh, Director, Sports and Youth Welfare, Jitendra Shukla, CEO, Naya Raipur Development Authority, Amit Kataria, Director, Public Relations, O P Chaudhary, Inspector General of Police , G P Singh, and President, Chhattisgarh State Cricket Federation Baldeo Singh Bhatia.