BCC's tech marvel sports complex set to open

BANGALORE: Welcome to Hanumanth Nagar in Basavanagudi. Home to the BCC’s first-in-the-country technological marvel: a super sports complex with multifarious facilities under one roof.
While the city has a few stadia of international class, the Hanumanth Nagar facility, christened the Rajiv Gandhi Sports Complex, will be open to the public to train and play.
While the tennis courts have been built by Atul Gurjar’s Syncotts International, who are representing the US company Seal Masters, who are based in San Dusky, Ohio, the original builders of the courts where the US Open is held, the multipurpose indoor sports facilities are being built by architect Nandaiah based on the Australian model. Says Atul, his company has built similar courts for the Delhi Lawn Tennis Association.
The sports complex, a brain child of former Mayor and Hanumanth Nagar corporator K. Chandrashekar, will be run by forming 11 sports academies to govern the facilities. “This will be the first sports complex that will house all of these,� Chandrashekar told the ‘Sunday Times of India’. The facility is constructed at a cost of Rs 14 crore. “Also, schools in the area do not have play space and they have been asking us for the facility.�
Says Chandrashekar, already several MNCs have enquired about the facilities, which is likely to be inaugurated by chief minister S.M. Krishna on Monday. While the entire sports complex will be ready for public use only after three or four months, the CM will however inaugurate it now.