{"id":13279,"date":"2013-08-23T12:38:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T07:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=13279"},"modified":"2013-08-23T12:38:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T07:08:19","slug":"work-on-games-village-at-meenamkulam-to-start-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/work-on-games-village-at-meenamkulam-to-start-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Work on Games Village at Meenamkulam to start soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>35th National Games<\/strong> is set to kick-off from February next year and the work on the pre-fabricated <a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/national-games-village-to-come-up-in-trivandrum\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Games Village<\/strong><\/a> units at Meenamkulam in Trivandrum will soon start.<\/p>\n<p>The National Games Secretariat has awarded the work to <strong>Acme Cleantech Solutions<\/strong> Pvt. Ltd, the lowest bidder from the 3 shortlisted agencies, for <strong>Rs.36.57 crore<\/strong>. ACME, Rinac and Sintex where the three final bidders and the selected bid amount was Rs.36.80 crore, which was reduced after negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier the three companies had displayed their mock units at Trivandrum. A technical expert group constituted by the NGS evaluated these mock units before finalising the technology to be installed in Trivandrum.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13282\" style=\"width: 344px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13282\" class=\" wp-image-13282 \" title=\"Games Village Layout\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2013\/08\/village4-418x513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/village4-418x513.jpg 418w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/village4.jpg 692w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Games Village Layout<\/p><\/div>\n<p>28 Acres of land has been identified at Menamkulam for the construction of Games Village. The land is owned by Kerala SIDCO and NGS will temporarily use the land for constructing the Games Village. After the National Games, these units will be dismantled and will be given to sports institutions in Kerala and for other Government Departments.<\/p>\n<p>The prefab housing units can accommodate about <strong>5000 people<\/strong>. Five athletes will be accommodated in one room, while coaches and team officials get single rooms. The Games Village will also have social infrastructures such as kitchen, food courts, reception desks, medical centre, recreational zone, health club, open air theatre, conference halls etc.<\/p>\n<p>Games Village will have all the basic facilities like internal road network, street lighting, parking bays, sewage treatment plant, water treatment plant, electrical sub-station and even landscaping.<\/p>\n<p>Opening and closing ceremony will be held at the <a title=\"Thiruvananthapuram all set for its first International stadium\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/thiruvanathapuram-all-set-for-its-first-international-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>International stadium at Kariavattom<\/strong><\/a>. The construction of the stadium is going at a fast pace is expected to complete before Feb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 35th National Games is set to kick-off from February next year and the work on the pre-fabricated Games Village units at Meenamkulam in Trivandrum will soon start. The National Games Secretariat has awarded the work to Acme Cleantech Solutions Pvt. Ltd, the lowest bidder from the 3 shortlisted agencies, for Rs.36.57 crore. ACME, Rinac [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[382],"class_list":["post-13279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-national-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}