Men and Women Hockey Team Captain Manpreet Singh and Rani Rampal having a photo op with chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik during the press conference on Hockey Men's World Cup, Bhubaneseswar 2018 at New Delhi. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday announced that India’s biggest hockey stadium will come up at Rourkela and the 20,000-capacity facility will host matches of FIH men’s World Cup in 2023. I hope it will emerge as the best venue for field hockey in the World,” the CM said. Recently, a high-level team including senior officials from the state government, International Federation of Hockey (FIH), Department of Sports and Youth Services and Hockey India had visited Rourkela. The work to develop synthetic hockey turf in each of the 17 blocks of Sundargarh district has already commenced.

Source: Indian Express December 24, 2020 09:09 UTC