Summary:
The first floor will have a built-up area of 550 square metres, followed by the rooftop area of 70 square metres. The ground floor area (1449 square metres or approximately 30% of the site area) will house all the key amenities of the indoor stadium such as badminton, basketball and volleyball courts. The spectators are often left in a confused state as to who is playing for which team. Apart from the funds provided through the Vizag Smart City project, Vuda will contribute Rs 3 crore towards construction of the Sports Arena.Many groups playing simultaneously in a haphazard manner due to lack of space and multi-utility grounds is a regular sight at playgrounds in and around MVP Colony and Andhra University. The Indoor Sports Arena is expected to come up with a solution, at least to some extent, for joggers, swimmers and badminton players, if not cricket.GVMC commissioner M Hari Narayanan said based on the theme of Vizag Smart City of ‘A Resilient and Healthy Metropolis for People’, it has been proposed to develop a sports arena at MVP Colony in the available open space..