The ball seems to be in Chennai's court as Deputy CM Udhayanidhi announces yet another badminton court inauguration
Deputy CM Udhayanidhi Stalin inaugurated a ₹1.10 crore badminton court in Tiruvallikeni, reinforcing Tamil Nadu’s grassroots level first sports push.
Dovetailing ₹261 crore sanction for CM Stalin’s vision of turning Chennai into a multi-sport capital, Deputy CM Udhayanidhi Stalin has inaugurated another stellar project consisting of a badminton court in his own constituency.
The ₹1.10 crore badminton court has been constructed on Begum 5th Street, Thiruvallikeni, under the State's Development Policy in line with the Dravidian tier 3 micro sports decentralisation. The vision of building an Olympic pipeline to increase medal depth by expanding grassroots level participation was reinstated at the inauguration ceremony.
Talent acquisition and community access as parts of the main goal
The facility has been equipped with premium-quality courts, adequate seating arrangements, and required training facilities in order to inspire youth participation in sports and a healthy lifestyle at the regional levels. Its positioning in the population high, Triplicane, suggests the priority to be year-round access to these state of the art sports infrastructure. It shall also serve the purpose of talent acquisition in coherence with shaping the district as a funnel to sieve for youth league networks.
Infrastructure pivoted sports development model
“To deliver good sports performance, we need good sports infrastructure.”- Deputy CM Udhayanidhi.
Deputy CM Udhayanidhi had also inaugurated a ₹3.5 crore Chennai metro park and pickleball court located at Chennai Metro Rail Headquarters. A constituent of this Dravidian democratisation model was laying the foundation for 18 mini stadiums across several small districts of Chennai, worth ₹54 crores, and inaugurating modernised sports infrastructure, including a synthetic track and a football turf in Thanjavur, Madurai, and Tirunelveli, worth ₹16.73 crores.