Hockey Infrastructure in India

[Saffron Lenin]

Allahabad univ’s astroturf ground certified fit for int’l hockey matches

In a first for an educational institution in Uttar Pradesh, Allahabad University (AU)’s astroturf hockey ground—the first to be constructed under the Prayagraj Smart City Mission—on its science faculty campus has been declared fit to host field hockey matches of international level, officials said.

“The Federation Internationale de Hockey (International Hockey Federation), (FIH) team, after inspecting the ground and testing the same against several parameters on June 1, 2023, declared that the astroturf is in compliance with the international standards and has been approved for conducting national and international matches after meeting all the requisite norms,” said mission manager of the Prayagraj Smart City Project Sanjeev Kumar Sinha.

The importance of the AU astroturf hockey ground being declared to host international level matches can be gauged by the fact that though Uttar Pradesh today boasts of 15 astroturf hockey grounds, only a handful are certified to hold matches between teams of different countries.

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