Youth Welfare and Sports Development Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin inaugurated the mountain top training centre at Udagai Hill Development Project Open Air Stadium, Nilgiri District, through video conference. It was constructed at a cost of Rs.5 crore.
After the inaugural on Feb 19, District Collector M. Aruna distributed sweets to the students and visited the building. Tamil Nadu government has taken various proactive steps such as providing proper training and improving infrastructure facilities for sports so that sportsmen and women from Tamil Nadu can participate in all India and international sports competitions.
Accordingly, under the Tamil Nadu Innovation Initiative, the athletes will be able to achieve world class levels of cardiorespiratory fitness, muscle performance and health improvement, physical strength and endurance in the
centre.
Hill top training center has state of the art facilities and equipments including office room, computer room, fitness center, lecture hall, physio room, doctor's room, dormitory (accommodation for 12 players), four single rooms, six double rooms, kitchen, dining hall and workers' room.
Also, the training center is well equipped to accommodate 32 athletes for participation in national and international
competitions.
Additional Collector (Development) Mr. Kaushik, coaches, athletes, students and many others
participated.