{"id":22248,"date":"2015-01-26T14:34:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T09:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=22248"},"modified":"2015-02-02T18:35:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T13:05:48","slug":"kariyavattom-international-stadium-inauguration-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/kariyavattom-international-stadium-inauguration-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Kariyavattom International Stadium Inauguration today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>#EnteThiruvananthapuram:<\/strong> <\/em>The wait is finally over! <a title=\"[Video] Trivandrum International Stadium or Green Field Stadium at Thiruvananthapuram\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/videos\/video-trivandrum-international-stadium-or-green-field-stadium-at-thiruvananthapuram\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Trivandrum International Greenfield Stadium<\/strong><\/a> will be inaugurated today at 5pm by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy. The multi-purpose arena is scheduled to host the opening and closing ceremonies of the 35th National Games to be held in the state from January 31 to February 14.<\/p>\n<p>The construction work of the Greenfield International stadium began in 2012 with IL&amp;FS being the designer and builder. The eco-friendly stadium is built on the \u2018green\u2019 concept with trees all around it and strictly follows the National Building Norms.<\/p>\n<p>The International Greenfield stadium offers best in class viewing experience for the spectators. No matter where they are seated viewers can see the game without any obstruction. The stadium has a seating capacity of 50,000 and another 25,000 people can watch the game while standing. Eight Hi-mast lights have been installed at the stadium. There will also be huge parking facility that can house 2000 cars at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Another major attraction of the stadium is its Club house. The building will house 40 rooms that offer 5-star level facilities. The club house also have\u00a0 3 tennis court, Olympic standard swimming pool with 8 lanes and 12 badminton courts, 20 table tennis, 3 basketball courts and 2 squash courts.<\/p>\n<p>Built at a cost of Rs240 crore, <a title=\"Trivandrum International Airport: 60th place in Global Ranking, 3rd in the country\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/trivandrum-international-airport-60th-place-in-global-ranking-3rd-in-the-country\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Kariyavattom Greenfield stadium will join the league of international stadiums.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#EnteThiruvananthapuram: The wait is finally over! Trivandrum International Greenfield Stadium will be inaugurated today at 5pm by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy. The multi-purpose arena is scheduled to host the opening and closing ceremonies of the 35th National Games to be held in the state from January 31 to February 14. The construction work of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[429],"class_list":["post-22248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-national-games-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248"}],"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=22248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}