On the occasion of India’s 78th Independence Day, BCCI Secretary Jay Shah made multiple announcements regarding BCCI’s future plan for moving the game to the next level.
During an interaction, Jay Shah revealed that the new state-of-the-art NCA will be built on the outskirts of Bengaluru and also indicated that it would be open for non-cricketing athletes such as Neeraj Chopra and Manu Bhaker, who made the country proud by winning medals at the recently concluded Paris Olympics 2024.
As per a report, the facility will boast three grounds and 100 pitches, including 45 indoor turfs. “We are going to make it available for Olympic sportspersons too like Neeraj Chopra,” Shah told TOI.
In the same meeting, Jay Shah revealed his plan to build seven more new NCAs where six of which would be in North-East states while Jammu would have the seventh one.
“When I took over as BCCI secretary in Sept 2019, immediately within three to four months, there was the Covid-19 pandemic.
All our focus was on how to host the IPL and some domestic cricket. For two years, the BCCI office was almost shut. Once we got the second term, we decided to take this forward. This was about developing facilities in the North-East.
And the NCA, I laid the foundation stone in 2022 in Bengaluru. In 2008, we had procured land, but no work was done. I don’t know why my predecessors didn’t do anything,” Jay Shah said.
The new NCA in Bengaluru is set to open in September. Notably, the new NCA will have an Olympic-size swimming pool and state-of-the-art training, recovery and sports science facilities.
