Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik announced India's biggest hockey stadium will come up at Rourkela.
The international level stadium of 20,000 seating capacity will host matches of FIH men's World Cup in 2023. The stadium will spread over 15 acre of land and be constructed in the Biju Patnaik University of Technology campus.
The tournament will be organised both in Bhubaneswar and Rourkela in Sundargarh district. The work to develop synthetic hockey turf in each of the 17 blocks of Sundargarh district has already begun.