Khelo India Sports Infrastructure

Under the Khelo India scheme for 2021–22 to 2025–26, the Bihar State Building Construction Corporation (BSBCCL) is building sports infrastructure across the state. In January 2025 it appointed ARCH-EN DESIGN to prepare the detailed project reports for infrastructure for twelve sports, in the areas of its Saran, Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga and Saharsa project implementation units.

A programme across the state

This is not one stadium but a programme. The facilities add up to works valued at up to ₹500 crore, spread over many sites in the four project implementation units, and construction is now under way at several of them at once. Each site is designed, estimated, tendered and supervised as its own project, while the facility types are kept common so that quality stays the same from one district to the next.

A standard for each facility

The work begins with a design basis report for each type of facility. Each report fixes the dimensions, playing surface, sub-base, drainage and services, so that the same standard can be repeated from one district to the next.

• 400-metre synthetic athletic tracks in 4-, 6- and 8-lane versions, in sandwich or full PUR systems certified by World Athletics, around a natural grass football field
• A synthetic turf hockey field of FIH Global category, 91.4 by 55 metres, laid on a shock pad
• Swimming pools of 50 by 25 metres, open or all-weather, and 25 by 25 metres, each with a balancing tank, filtration plant and pump room
• Synthetic acrylic outdoor courts for lawn tennis, basketball, volleyball and badminton
• Multipurpose halls with maple wooden sports floors, and squash courts

From brief to tender

For each site, the scope runs from drawings for statutory approval and tender to structural design, plumbing and drainage, electrical work, fire fighting and other services, and landscape. Estimates are built on the PWD schedule of rates, and the work carries through to the detailed project report, the tender documents and supervision until completion.