Barrack Stadium, Berhampur to be ready in three months

By SUNIL PATNAIK

The renovation of Berhampur Stadium, undertaken by the state department of sports and youth services, will complete within three months at an estimated cost of Rs 1 crore.

Saswat Mishra, commissioner-cum-secretary of sports and youth services department, visited the stadium and reviewed the work’s progress today.

“The condition of the soil on the field is too bad. Odisha Agro Industries Corporation is removing the outer soil and the stadium will be ready in three months,” Mishra said.

The blueprint of the project includes renovation of the playground, construction of an underground reservoir and a sprinkler system. Pipelines are being laid for the stadium.

P.K. Panda of the Odisha Agro Industries Corporation said they had already removed a ground of the size of 2-lakh square feet. About 150 truckloads of soil have been removed and fresh black cotton soils have been laid on the surface. “We would lay soil after treated it with pesticides and fertilisers,” he said.

The public health engineering department will connect the underground reservoir with a water point at Utkal Ashram.

“We will plant grass on the soil once water is available. Now that the monsoon is expected to hit at any time, it should not be a problem.”

Source: Telegraph