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Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik with the Indian Nationwide Hockey Staff (IANS)
Whereas welcoming the youths from Sundargarh district, Patnaik lauded their efforts to popularise and promote hockey and sought the cooperation of all for the success of the mega worldwide occasion in Rourkela
With Odisha beneath the grip of hockey world cup fever, numerous youths pedalled over 300 km from Rourkela to Bhubaneswar to thank Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for organising the mega occasion in Sundargarh district, the cradle of hockey within the state. Rourkela is without doubt one of the two venues for the Males’s Hockey World Cup, 2023 the place as many as 20 matches shall be performed on the newly constructed Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium. Whereas welcoming the youths from Sundargarh district, Patnaik lauded their efforts to popularise and promote hockey and sought the cooperation of all for the success of the mega worldwide occasion in Rourkela, an official launch stated.
The cyclists had been elated because the folks of the tribal-dominated Sundargarh district will maintain a world occasion on their soil for the primary time within the historical past. The world’s largest hockey stadium has additionally come up in Rourkela, the place the inaugural match is slated to be held between India and Spain on January 13.
Equally, one other group of lovers led by former legislator Prabhat Tripathy additionally met the chief minister and thanked him for the choice to organise the opening ceremony of the Hockey World Cup within the historic metropolis of Cuttack on Wednesday.
The chief minister sought cooperation of the folks of the millennium metropolis for the success of the occasion, the CMO assertion stated.
In the meantime, protecting in view the inaugural celebrations of the FIH Odisha Hockey Males’s World Cup 2023 Bhubaneswar–Rourkela on the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack, the district collector Bhabani Shankar Chayani introduced half-day vacation within the millennium metropolis.
All state authorities places of work, academic establishments, banks and banking establishments situated inside Cuttack Municipal Company will stay closed within the second half from 1:30 pm on Wednesday to allow folks to observe the inaugural ceremony of the Hockey Males’s World Cup-2023.
Including to this, the authorities additionally introduced free ‘Mo Bus’ (my bus) service to Cuttack for the folks having move/ticket for the inaugural occasion. The free ‘Mo Bus’ shuttle service shall be out there on Grasp Canteen in Bhubaneswar to Barabati Stadium in Cuttack and Baramunda to Barabati Stadium routes, the Capital Area City Transport (CRUT) authority stated.
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