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Hindustan Times
05-05-2025
- Business
- Hindustan Times
Delhi govt plans to upgrade street furniture installed during 2010 CWG
New Delhi, Multiple locations in Delhi will be adorned with new street furniture as the Delhi government plans to take up a project to instal new items in place of the ones that were put up during the time of the 2010 Commonwealth Games . The street furniture, which also includes civic amenities, will be installed across five clusters that comprise roads in the vicinity of venues of the CWG. These include key areas like Delhi University, Games Village and Yamuna Sports Complex, Noida Link Road, RK Khanna Tennis Complex, Siri Fort Sports Complex, Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range and Ring Road. The government has floated a tender for the maintenance and upgradation of existing furniture as well as installation of new items. At the time of the 2010 CWG, the Public Works Department had taken up a drive for the beautification of roads through street scaping, resurfacing and street lighting among others. The Delhi Tourism and Transport Development Corporation was assigned the responsibility of entering into a concession agreement on behalf of the PWD. The street furniture items include traffic and police booths, vending kiosks, public toilets, tree guards, dust bins, information panels, benches, free-standing panels and auto prepaid booths. According to official documents, the concessionaire shall make good the damaged furniture items to their original shape within a six-month period while the time allowed for the installation of new items will be one year. "If the concessionaire fails to adhere to the time limit, a recovery of ₹5,000 per day subject to a maximum of one lakh will be imposed," said an official. The minimum reserve price for the first Quarterly Concession Fees is ₹1.37 crore. The documents mandate that the selected bidder will prepare the construction drawings for project facilities taking into account the structural safety and stability of the street furniture structures and will submit them to the approving authority 15 days before the commencement of construction works. Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has on multiple occasions promised a visible transformation in public spaces under the "triple-engine" government model.
Indian Express
01-05-2025
- Sport
- Indian Express
Room with a view: At 2026 Asian Games, athletes to stay at ‘Floating Village' on board luxury cruise liner
When thousands of athletes return to their rooms after intense, high-pressure matches during next year's Asian Games, they will be greeted by a sight that will instantly heal them: an unobstructed view of the ocean. To reduce the massive costs incurred by constructing a dedicated Athletes' Village, the organisers of the Aichi-Nagoya Asiad, to be held from September 19 to October 4, have come up with a novel plan — to create a floating village on a cruise ship. In a departure from tradition, the 2026 Asian Games organisers have said that instead of the usual brick-and-mortar buildings that make the Athletes' Village, approximately 4,600 athletes will be housed in a luxury cruise liner that will be docked at Japan's shipping hub Nagoya. The floating Games Village will be based at the Kinjo Pier in Nagoya Port and will include a balcony with an ocean view, giving the athletes a 'once-in-a-lifetime' experience, the organisers said. The plans were revealed during the first technical delegates meeting in Nagoya on Wednesday. Organisers said that athletes from 20 sports whose competition venues are close to Nagoya Port will be accommodated in the liner. Asian Games Villas, described as temporary container homes, will be constructed for 2,400 participants at a nearby Pier. Together, they will form the two elements of the Asian Games Athletes' Plaza, which will be connected by a 15-minute shuttle bus ride over 6.5km, according to the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA). The rest of the athletes and officials will be put up in hotel rooms. The OCA added that the athletes from following 20 sports will be accommodated on the cruise liner: archery, basketball 3×3, canoe/kayak (sprint), cycling – mountain bike, cycling – BMX Racing, football (men), gymnastics, handball, judo, kabaddi, kurash, mixed martial arts, rowing, rugby, sepaktakraw, sport climbing, squash, tennis, weightlifting, wrestling and wushu. The Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games organisers decided against constructing a brand-new Athletes Village to cut costs. Earlier, the Nagoya racecourse was one of the sites being considered for the normal Village. However, according to a 2023 Asahi Shimbun report, the costs of the Games rose by more than 60 percent to approximately $927 million. Speaking after Wednesday's meeting, the technical delegate for BMX Racing, Max Mager, called the idea 'unique'. 'This has never been done before in the Asian Games – to have a cruise ship docked in the port as the Asian Games Village,' he was quoted as saying by the OCA. However, the Singapore national added a tinge of caution, saying the athletes would have 'no problem on the liner' if 'the ship offered the usual village services such as catering, a gymnasium and storage for equipment.' The Asian Games are bigger in participation numbers compared to the Olympics. At the previous edition in Hangzhou, China, close to 12,000 athletes from 45 countries took part. India sent a contingent of 661 athletes, who won a record 106 medals including 28 gold. It was the first time India crossed the 100-medal mark at the Asian Games. Earlier this week, the 2026 Games organisers added T20 cricket to the programme after the initial uncertainty over its place. The venue, however, is yet to be finalised.
