Question: On 2nd January 2022 PM Modi has laid foundation stone of Major Dhyan Chand Sports University at which place?
(a) Delhi
(b) Rohatak
(c) Meerut
(d) None of the above
Ans: c
Recent Context
- On 2nd January 2022 Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of Major Dhyan Chand Sports University in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut.
Related Facts
- The sports university is being established at an estimated cost of ₹700 crore at the Salawa and Kaili villages of the Sardhana town in Meerut.
- It has been planned with all the modern, state-of-the-art sports infrastructure – including a synthetic hockey ground, football ground, separate grounds for basketball, volleyball, handball, and kabaddi.
- It will have the capacity of training 1,080 sportspersons, including 540 women and 540 men.
- The university will also house facilities for shooting, squash, gymnastics, weightlifting, archery, canoeing, and kayaking, among other facilities.
About Major Dhyan Chand
- Major Dhyan Chand (29 August 1905 – 3 December 1979) was an Indian field hockey player.
- He is widely regarded as the greatest field hockey player in history of the sport.
- To honour him government has recently changed name of highest sports award in the country to Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna.
Kameshwar Shukla
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