Overview
- The 102-acre Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium complex would be rebuilt as a multi-discipline Sports City with competition venues, training facilities and athlete housing.
- Sports Ministry sources say the existing stadium will be dismantled and on-campus offices, including NADA and NDTL, will be relocated.
- Planners are evaluating international sports city models in Doha and Australia to help determine the design and modalities.
- The venue, built for the 1982 Asian Games and overhauled for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, has a capacity of about 60,000 and a long record of hosting major events.
- Recent additions for the World Para Athletics Championships included new Mondo tracks, thousands of new seats and improved accessibility features.