{"id":14599,"date":"2013-10-30T11:16:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T05:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=14599"},"modified":"2013-10-30T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T05:46:11","slug":"work-on-games-village-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/work-on-games-village-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Work on Games Village at Menamkulam started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The construction work of the pre-fabricated <strong>Games Village<\/strong> units at Menamkulam for the 35th National Games has started on Tuesday. Industries Minister and Games Village Committee chairman P K Kunhalikutty inaugurated the construction.<\/p>\n<p>The Games Village will provide accommodation for sports persons, athletes and coaches for the upcoming 35th National Games. The project which is constructed at an expense of Rs 60 crore will have the capacity to house 5000 persons. Five athletes will be accommodated in one room, while coaches and team officials get single rooms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">A total of <strong>365 pre-fab houses<\/strong>, each with an area of 680Sq.Ft are fully air-conditioned and each house will have 3 bedrooms and a sit-out. Social infrastructures such as kitchen, food courts, reception desks, medical centre, recreational zone, health club, open air theatre, conference halls etc are included in the Games Village. Apart from these, it will also have house-keeping, solid waste management, security, clean water distribution facilities and even landscaping.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14604\" style=\"width: 428px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14604\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14604\" alt=\"National Games Village Layout\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2013\/10\/National-Games-Village-Layout.jpg\" width=\"418\" height=\"513\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Games Village Layout<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The construction of the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/work-on-games-village-at-meenamkulam-to-start-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Games village<\/a> is being carried out in an environment-friendly way with a new concept called \u2018Haritha Games.\u2019 Using &#8220;Prefab Technology&#8221;, houses can be constructed in a speedy way and can be shifted to any other place. It takes only 2 weeks to construct a house with this technology. A total of 24 houses will be completed by November and the rest will be completed by January. After the National Games, these houses will be shifted to other places to make use of them for other purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The Games Village is just 4 km away from the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/thiruvanathapuram-all-set-for-its-first-international-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greenfield International stadium at Kariavattom<\/a>, where the inaugural and closing ceremony of the Games will be held.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The construction work of the pre-fabricated Games Village units at Menamkulam for the 35th National Games has started on Tuesday. Industries Minister and Games Village Committee chairman P K Kunhalikutty inaugurated the construction. The Games Village will provide accommodation for sports persons, athletes and coaches for the upcoming 35th National Games. The project which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14599"}],"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=14599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}