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Kanpur: The proposed visitors gallery, pavilion and cricket museum will soon be established in the 71-year-old historical Green Park stadium to which the state government and the sports department have given their nod recently by issuing a no-objection certificate.
A visitors gallery and a cricket museum will be established at the director's pavilion of the Green Park. The rare and historical photographs and other material will be placed in the museum to make the city proud. This initiative has been taken by Smart City Limited.
Divisional commissioner Raj Shekhar visited the Green Park stadium for routine inspection on Saturday. He was accompanied by Mudrika Pathak, deputy director and in-charge of the sports department at Green Park and other officials. The commissioner stated that since the new pavilion had been handed over to the Green Park administration, the directorate pavilion which was being used as the players pavilion would remain vacant.
The cricket lovers had been demanding a visitors pavilion and cricket museum in the Green Park stadium where the “Best cricket moments” of Green Park and Indian cricket team are displayed so that like other well known stadiums in the world Green Park too can be made popular among the cricket lovers, and for this the director pavilion will be converted into visitors pavilion and a cricket museum displaying the memorable moments of Green Park cricket in terms of the best matches, trophies, photos, newspaper cuttings, cricket kits etc.
The Smart City corporation after preparing a draft project details had sent it for NOC to the sports department which issued the NOC. The Kanpur Smart City will invest around Rs 5 rore in the project.
Briefing about the project, the commissioner said that the visitors pavilion will have facilities like museum, virtual cricket pitch, cafeteria, toilet, souvenir shops, sSelfie points, photo gallery and a 24-seater movie theatre which will screen 15 minutes video on the Green Park stadium.
The visitor pavilion will be run and maintained by the divisional sports promotion committee under the chairmanship of the commissioner, Raj Shekhar added.