Sports

Although Noida is counted among the most developed cities of the State, still some development is required in various fields. Provision of proper sport and recreational facility in each sector is one of them. NA has not prepared any specific plan for that. They are going to construct one more sport stadium in the name of adding one more feature in sports facility, whereas residents believe that development at this point requires more planning as everyone cannot go to stadium every day. So, RWA of each sector has sought land for a club from NA for the sector residents.  

AN Dhawan, senior vice-president of FONRWA said, "As authorities like administration, police are responsible for redressal of problems of residents relating to development of roads, parks, water and electricity supply, hygiene, cleanliness, law and order, the RWAs are also responsible for promoting sports and cultural activities. It is, therefore, absolutely imperative that sports and cultural clubs under the aegis of RWAs should be hyperactive and join hands with the authorities in the noble cause of development of games and sports to achieve the desired aim and objectives of the residents."

Source: Jagrancityplus.com FONRWA seeks land for making sport club in every Noida sector

In his letter to the Indian High Commissioner in London, Padmanabhan brought to light the frequent harassment the shooters encountered.

He said ace trap shooter and Commonwealth Games gold medallist Manavjit Singh Sandhu was insulted by the transport supervisor Mike, who asked the Olympian to get off the bus.

"Our Indian shooters were in the process of boarding the bus from the ranges to the official hotel when the driver slammed the door shut on the Indian shooter waiting outside and left him at the range. When the other shooters on the bus strongly objected, the driver turned back and went to the supervisor of the transport dept, Mr Mike."

"Mr Mike then returned to the bus and yelled and screamed at our shooters and insulted them. He was very very rude and threatened the team with dire circumstances. He then addressed our Indian World Champion and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Mr Manavjit Singh and told him to get off the bus. He refused saying that the bus was the official transport and not his personal vehicle. Mr. Mike then threatened him by saying that the Indian Team will not be allowed to take the bus tomorrow morning," Padmanabhan wrote in his letter to the High Commission.

Source: zeenews.com ISSF World Cup : Indian Shooters Harassed By Organisers

The Formula 1 track in Greater Noida is designed to be 5.1 Km long and contains 16 corners. The cars are expected to lap at an average speed of 210 kmph around. The track is one of the fastest in the world, with the cars reaching 320 kmph in the main straight before braking into turn 4.

The designers have taken inputs from the teams' simulator test runs for refining their track layout and have put the data into good use by modifying turn turn 7 and turn 3  to increase overtaking opportunities.

The  state of the art curved roof grand stand, located near turn 10 and 11, has a capacity of 30,000 people bringing the total capacity of the track to a staggering 1,20,000.

With Karun coming into F1 and an Indian team - Force India F1 showing some great racing on the track, organizers feel that filling up the seats wont' be a major task for them.

Track boss Mark Hughes said "Karun's presence on the F1 grid has certainly whipped up a lot of interest in India. The feedback from the teams has also been very encouraging and we hope the race will speak for itself."

Twelve nations (Australia, Argentina, Canada, England, Germany, India, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Spain, South Africa) are drawn in two Pools (A and B) and play each side in their group once before the classification matches take place.

Germany are the current holders and a win in New Delhi will see them become the first side to win the trophy for the third consecutive time.

England finished fifth in 2006 but as reigning European champions have targeted a semi-final berth in India.

Pools:

Who to watch:

Cup holders Germany will be looking to prove themselves worthy of being ranked No 1 in the world after missing out on the European title and the Champions Trophy last year.

Champions Trophy holders and medal winners at the last four Olympics, Australia are favourites to join Germany in the 1st v 2nd place match on the final day of the tournament.

Source: telegraph.co.uk By Emily Benammar Hockey World Cup 2010: complete tournament guide

अब तक यहां 2 मल्टियूज स्टेडियम बनाए जा चुके हैं। इसमें से 1 स्टेडियम ग्रेटर नोएडा अथॉरिटी ने तैयार किया है वहीं दूसरा स्टेडियम जेपी कंपनी तैयार कर रही है। कंपनी फिलहाल 1 लाख लोगों की क्षमता वाला क्रिकेट स्टेडियम बनाने में जुटी है। वहीं मलकपुर में खेल विभाग के एक अन्य स्टेडियम का निर्माण कार्य अप्रैल से शुरू हो जाएगा। वहीं फार्म्युला वन रेस ट्रैक प्रोजेक्ट पर काम चल रहा है। अब सरकार का सारा फोकस फैसिलिटी का ज्यादा से ज्यादा उपयोग करने पर पर है। गौतमबुद्धनगर लोकसभा सीट से बीएसपी सांसद सुरेंद्र सिंह नागर ने बताया कि ग्रेटर नोएडा में बने दोनेम मल्टियूज स्टेडियम अंतरराष्ट्रीय मानक को ध्यान में रखकर बनाए गए हैं। अब इसका सही इस्तेमाल जरूरी है। उन्होंने बताया कि दिल्ली में स्पोर्ट्स के विकास के लिए कई स्टेडियम तो बन गए, लेकिन गैर स्पोर्ट्स कार्यों में यूज किए जाने लगे।

ग्रेटर नोएडा में ऐसा न हो इसके लिए विभिन्न खेलों के राष्ट्रीय स्तर के कोच से संपर्क कर उनसे यहां अकैडमी खोलने का अनुरोध किया जा रहा है। शनिवार को एक कार्यक्रम में ग्रेटर नोएडा पहुंचे राष्ट्रीय हॉकी टीम के कोच हरेंद्र सिंह ने बताया कि वर्ल्ड कप के खत्म होते ही वह प्रदेश सरकार को एक ब्लू प्रिंट तैयार कर देंगे। इसी के आधार पर अकैडमी खोली जाएगी। उन्होंने कहा कि हॉकी और क्रिकेट के लिए रूरल सेक्टर के खिलाडि़यों पर ज्यादा फोकस किया जाएगा। हालांकि उन्होंने राष्ट्रीय हॉकी टीम में पिछले दिनों हुए विवाद और टीम की तैयारियों पर कुछ भी कहने से इनकार कर दिया।

डिस्ट्रिक्ट स्पोर्ट्स अफसर प्रेम कुमार ने बताया कि गौतमबुद्धनगर में अब तक स्पोर्ट्स डिपार्टमेंट का अपना कोई स्टेडियम नहीं था। कोई भी इवेंट से पहले अथॉरिटी से परमिशन लेनी पड़ती है, ताकि नोएडा स्टेडियम में आयोजन कराया जा सके। लेकिन अब डिपार्टमेंट का अपना स्टेडियम होगा। डीएम दीपक अग्रवाल ने स्टेडियम के लिए जमीन अलॉट कर दी है।

स्टेडियम मुर्शदपुर में बन रहे राजस्व विभाग के अफसरों के आवास के निकट ही 7.8 एकड़ जमीन पर बनेगा। डिस्ट्रिक्ट स्पोर्ट्स अफसर ने बताया कि इसमें 400 मीटर का रेसिंग ट्रैक होगा। ट्रैक के अंदर ही हॉकी, फुटबॉल और क्रिकेट ग्राउंड होगा। स्टेडियम में एक मल्टी परपज हॉल बनाया जाएगा। इसमें बैडमिंटन, टेबल टेनिस और जूडो के गेम होंगे। इसके अलावा हैंड बॉल और वॉलीबॉल के लिए अलग से कोर्ट बनाया जाएगा। डीएम दीपक अग्रवाल ने बताया कि नए वित्त वर्ष में अप्रैल से स्टेडियम का निर्माण शुरू होगा। स्टेडियम के निर्माण में करीब 10 करोड़ रुपये खर्च होंगे। दो करोड़ रुपये की पहली किस्त स्पोर्ट्स डिपार्टमेंट को मार्च में मिल जाएगी।

Even as elections to Hockey India are mired in controversy, now it is the turn of Indian players to rise in revolt against the game's administrators.

The entire men's team on Friday boycotted the World Cup practice camp in Pune.

The players led by captain Rajpal Singh have refused to join the training camp unless their dues are paid by Hockey India.

The hockey players claim they are yet to receive their payment for the Champions Challenge I tournament in Argentina.

India had won bronze medal in the tournament, held in Salta, Argentina last month.

Hockey World Cup is scheduled to be held in New Delhi from February 28 to March 13 with India taking on archrivals Pakistan on the opening day of the mega-event.

The semi-finals of the tournament are scheduled for March 11, while the final will be played on March 13.

Teams and groups for the World Cup:

Pool A: Argentina, Canada, Germany, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand

Pool B: Australia, England, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Spain.

"The stadium will be located at the Gautam Buddha Nagar in Greater Noida. It will have a gymnasium, swimming pool and a club house. We also plan to have an academy. Once completed in 2011, we can have IPL matches and even ODIs at this venue," Shukla added.

नोएडा स्टेडियम में 12 से 14 नवंबर तक आयोजित इस चैंपियनशिप में नोएडा-ग्रेटर नोएडा, दादरी और देहात क्षेत्र में स्थित करीब एक दर्जन स्कूल भाग लेंगे। बेहतरीन प्रदर्शन करने वाली खिलाड़ियों को स्टेट टीम में खेलने का मौका दिया जाएगा।

असोसिएशन के सेक्रटरी अनादि बरुआ ने बताया कि जिले की इस समय नौ लड़कियां यूपी टीम की ओर से अंडर-14, अंडर-19 और सीनियर नैशनल चैंपियनशिप में खेल रही हैं। ऐसे ही खिलाड़ियों को मौका देने के लिए यह चैंपियनशिप आयोजित की जा रही है। अगर स्कूली टीमों का अच्छा रिस्पॉन्स मिलेगा तो इसे असोसिएशन के सालाना एक्टिविटी कैलंडर का एक अनिवार्य हिस्सा बना लिया जाएगा।

चैंपियनशिप में हिस्सा लेने के इच्छुक स्कूल नोएडा स्टेडियम में इन दिनों शाम को कैंब्रिज स्कूल के कोच आजाद सिंह, केके दुआ और एपीजे स्कूल के कोच कैलाश सिंह राजपूत से संपर्क कर सकते हैं।

ग्रेटर नोएडा में जेपी गोल्फ कोर्स व वाईएमसीए के पास 37 एकड़ जमीन पर इंटरनैशनल स्टैडर्ड का स्टेडियम बनाया जा रहा है। ग्रेटर नोएडा अथॉरिटी के डीसीईओ पी. सी. गुप्ता ने बताया कि स्टेडियम में क्रिकेट पवेलियन, एथलेटिक पवेलियन, ब्राउलिंग ऐले आदि के लिए बिल्डिंग निर्माण का कार्य लगभग पूरा हो चुका है। क्रिकेट पवेलियन चार मंजिला बनाया गया है। एथलेटिक पवेलियन और बॉलिंग ऐले का काम भी करीब पूरा हो चुका है। क्रिकेट पिच तैयार हो चुकी है। इसमें घास लगा दी गई है।

अथॉरिटी ने स्टेडियम के संचालन के लिए तीन माह पहले चेयरमैन की अध्यक्षता में कमिटी भी बना दी है। उन्होंने बताया कि अब बस स्टेडियम की ओपनिंग की तैयारी है। योजना ये है कि ओपनिंग धमाकेदार तरीके से हो। इसके तहत प्लान ये है कि यहां रणजी का कोई मैच करा दिया जाए। अथवा आईपीएल का भी यहां मैच कराया जा सकता है।

क्या होगी सुविधा
क्रिकेट पवेलियन के ग्राउंड फ्लोर पर कॉन्फ्रेंसिंग, फर्स्ट फ्लोर पर प्लेयर एवं कोच के लिए रूम, सेकंड फ्लोर पर मीडिया के लिए और थर्ड फ्लोर पर कॉरपोरेट जगत के लोगों के लिए स्पेस बनाया गया है। इसमें 5500 दर्शकों के बैठने की क्षमता है। यहां क्रिकेट के रणजी जैसे मैच हो सकेंगे साथ ही कोचिंग के लिए यह बेहतरीन स्थान होगा। एथलेटिक पवेलियन में आठ ट्रैक वाला चार सौ मीटर का सिंथेटिक ट्रैक बनाया गया है। आठ ट्रैक का ही 200 मीटर का प्रैक्टिस ट्रैक बनाया गया है। चार सौ मीटर ट्रैक के अंदर ही फुटबॉल का ग्राउंड है। इसके अलावा लॉन टेनिस और वॉलीबॉल के लिए भी कोर्ट होंगे। फर्स्ट फेज पर 11 करोड़ रुपये खर्च किए जा रहे हैं।

सेकंड फेज
सेकंड फेज में इंडोर स्टेडियम का निर्माण होगा। इस पर 20 करोड़ रुपये खर्च होंगे। इसमें स्विमिंग पूल, लॉन टेनिस, जिमनेजियम, बैडमिंटन, टेबल टेनिस जैसे खेल होंगे।

Rough estimates show that out of the total 100% real estate market the residential segment weightage is approximately 75% whereas 20% is commercial office spaces and balance 5% comprises retail, hospitality.

The mid market residential segment (residential properties between Rs 15 - 50 lakh) represents nearly 85% of total mortgage disbursements in India. Therefore, the mid market residential segment represents nearly 64% of the market. Almost 55% of mortgage finance disbursement for residential properties happens within the top seven cities and the balance 45% is shared by the whole country.

There was a dearth of two to three bedroom properties within this range of Rs 15 - 50 lakh within the greater metropolitan areas of major cities. Easy supply of money from equity capital sources created an artificial demand of land for the development of large township projects and SEZs. Everybody started announcing huge and multiple projects but ignored the calculation, execution and delivery capability perspective involved.

Most developers started projects 10 - 20 times the total square footage of what they had delivered in the last 20 - 30 years. The various sources of institutional capital lapped up the story. However critical considerations like the nature and kind of organisation structure, management bandwidth, labour, capital equipment, machinery, project time were ignored.

The pricing of residential projects went up by 400 - 500% in most cities between 2006 - 2008. Interest rates also went up from an all time low of 7.00%, 20-year fixed mortgage to as high as 13.75% floating rate in 2008. This put a lot of strain on affordability.

Source: Economic Times Is the worst over for mid market residential segment?

India's grand prix debut was originally pencilled in for 2010, but Bernie Ecclestone announced last October that it would be delayed until the following season.

Renault's F1 demonstration in New Delhi last November drew a huge crowd

Samir Gaur, managing director of the JPSK Sports company that has acquired the rights to put on the event, says funds for the new venue are in place and it will be ready on time.

"The progress is very nice...I'm absolutely confident [it will be completed]," he told the Reuters news agency.

"The track will be ready in 2011.

"The design stage is in progress and regarding construction, the investigations of the site have also started.

"I'm expecting the track to be completed in April 2011.

"We plan to run trial events between May and July so that in October I think we can fix the calendar for the race."

Source: www.itv-f1.com India on target for 2011 GP debut

that allows ordinary people to take a close look at most parts of the world on their computer screens, using satellite images and maps.

The Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) is planning to launch a similar Web-based service that will allow users to check everything from the exact location of the new restaurant where they have booked a table for the evening to the state of flood-ravaged villages in Bihar.

The new mapping service will be called Bhuvan, which is the Sanskrit word for earth.

"The content generation is taking time. We are doing first (the) internal evaluation and then the (public) launch," said V. Jayaraman, director of the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) an Isro unit in Hyderabad that specializes in satellite image processing and distribution. He did not specify a launch date. Earlier, in November, the space agency had set a March deadline for Bhuvan to be operational.

The Indian space agency will use images taken at least a year ago by its seven remote-sensing satellites in orbit around the earth, including Cartosat-1 and Cartosat-2. These satellites shoot images as small as a car on the street, to build a three-dimensional map of the world. Details such as roads and soil patterns on the maps would be available only for the Indian region, however.

Bhuvan, which uses highresolution images, will comply with India's remote sensing data policy, which does not al low online mapping services to show sensitive locations such as military and nuclear installations. High-resolution images are those that show locations of 1 sq. m or less on earth.

Source: Live Mint Bhuvan: Isro's answer to Google Earth

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The proposed sports city will also have minor changes in its planning. "Earlier, the open sports complex area was 70 percent of the designated 311 hectares, while 20 percent was marked for residential purposes and the remaining 10 percent marked for commercial use. We have now decided to cut down on the land marked for commercial purposes by 4 percent and allot it for residential purposes," added Mohinder Singh.

Meanwhile, the company has decided to acquire more land in Noida that has been lying unplanned. The land near the embankments of Hindon and Yamuna, approximately 1,000 acres, will soon be acquired by the authority.

"We are in the process. It is an agricultural land and we will talk to farmers and develop the land for various purposes," said Singh. He added that 20 per cent of the land had been encroached upon, with people constructing farmhouses. "Eighty per cent of the land is still lying unplanned," Singh said.

For companies that have bought land in Noida and are looking to transfer it to other companies, authority has good news in store. "IT and ITES companies were not allowed to transfer land to other companies until they made their own company office functional on the allotted land. Now they can transfer their land without doing so -- by transferring 100 per cent shares to the other company," said Singh.

Also, farmers who could not take possession of residential plots in the scheme of 2004 for not having PAN cards can now claim allotment by attaching the declaration of their income in the certificate of allotment.

While Japanese carmaker Honda Motors on Friday pulled out from Formula One (F1) as its team's costs have become too heavy amid deteriorating business conditions, Indian Masters, first-ever European Tour event in India, is in limbo. Another Japanese carmaker Toyota has scaled back the launch of its 2009 F1 car as part of cost-cutting measures.

Even as professional golf in India is teeing off, financial crisis is casting shadow over Indian Masters, the golf tournament with highest-ever prize money in the country at $2.5 million. A source close to the development said the sponsors, real estate major Emaar-MGF are not willing to be part of the tournament. They have expressed their inability to back the tournament slated for February, the source said. "The decision of the sponsors is not very surprising, considering the current financial scenario," the source added.

one of the world's most popular sporting event is falling prey to downturn. Honda Motors on Friday made public its decision to pull out of F1, owing to global financial crisis. The car major's decision is fueling fears over the sport's future during this uncertain times. Media reports had earlier suggested that the carmaker is looking for a buyer for its team and if no buyer is found by the year-end, the team will be closed down.

Indian Olympic Association president Suresh Kalmadi announced in 2007 he had signed a deal to host a GP in New Delhi from 2010.

Ecclestone has now said it would probably happen later than that but did not explain. Asked if 2010 was still in the pipeline, he said: "It's all going on as usual, but these things take time.

"Probably 2011 is what I want."

India's ambitious F1 plans were unveiled in June 2007 when the Indian Olympic Association said it had received a letter from Ecclestone allowing the country to host a race subject to meeting certain conditions - such as building a track.

Designed to give amateur golfers the thrill of a global championship event, the tournament will see Citigold Select and Citi Private Bank clients teeing off at the Jaypee Greens Golf Resort in Greater Noida.

The Citi World Golfer's Championship will have four regional rounds: Delhi on September 27, Bengaluru on October 4, Kolkata on October 18, and Mumbai on November 2.

Played on the modified stableford format, golfers will compete in one of five handicap flights - 0-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20 and 21-24. One winner from each category from each of the four regional rounds will progress to the Grande Finale of the Citi World Golfer's Championship in Amby Valley, Mumbai on November 3rd, 2008.

The five winners from the national qualifier will go on to represent India as a team, as well as individually, in the world final.

After the board meeting, Noida's chief executive officer Mahinder Singh said: "The sports city will be set up on 311 hectares along the Expressway. The total land cost is calculated at Rs 3,523 crore. The sports facility will cost Rs 2,057 crore.

Commercial and residential infrastructure expenses will be in addition to this."

Singh said the authority would sell the plots to private developers who would develop the sports and other infrastructure.