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PANJIM: Santa Cruz MLA Tony Fernandes has mooted a master plan for Sports in Santa Cruz and requested the Executive Director of the Sports Authority of Goa (SAG) to depute an engineer along with the architecture to the proposed site at Santa Cruz.
It is learnt that the local officials also decided to set up a sports centre at St Cruz to make the centre attractive. They decided to incorporate facilities ranging from a synthetic football surface with flood lighting of football ground as per FIFA regulations, 9-lane sand track of 400mts at outer edge of the existing football ground and two changing rooms in between a small pool of 10 mts for rehabilitation.
It is given to understand that the plan also includes a second floor equipped with a gym, along with steam and sauna bath. The proposed plan for the third floor includes setting up of human performance and recovery laboratory, multipurpose hall for yoga, volleyball, badminton apart from a 100-bedded hostel with requisite facilities for dinning along with 40 points shooting range in the basement, so as to impart scientific training for promising sportspersons of Santa-Cruz and surrounding area.
In his letter to SAG Executive Director, the Santa Cruz MLA has also called for estimates and acquisition of land adjacent to Santa-Cruz ground, at the earliest.
This master plan was mooted by Roque Dias, Ex Executive Director, SAI with the support of CM, the funds will be brought from Central Govt./Corporate
