With the objective of providing world class sports infrastructure in the national capital, Lt Governor(LG)Vinai Kumar Saxena on Wednesday inaugurated the country’s longest golf course in Dwarka, Raj Niwas said.
Giving details, officials said apart from serving as an open recreational green in the larger Dwarka sub-city the golf course is going to provide much needed boost to the professional golf training to the young and budding golfers. Area MPs Kamaljeet Sehrawat and Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, were present on the occasion.
This 18 hole golf course at Sector 24 Dwarka is spread across 7,377 yards and has large greens spread over 158 acres. Besides, it has a driving range of 375 yards with 52 bays, which is also longest in the country and North Shore SLT grass for fairways (first in India). The total cost of the project is around Rs 250 crore.
Speaking at the event, Saxena said, “Our Hon’ble Prime Minister has led from the front in the promotion of sports in the country. In 2019, he launched Fit India movement which has help immensely in taking sports to every nook and corner of the country. The brilliant performance of our sportspersons in international events reflect the success of the movement.’
The LG also congratulated Delhi Development Authority(DDA) for making this state of the art golf course in such a short span of time and conveyed his appreciation to Vice Chairman, DDA, Vijay Kumar Singh, who was present on the dais.
The golf course at Dwarka Is going to be a pay & play facility in addition to tenure playing rights (three to five years). There is a provision of club-house facilities such as restaurant, snack kiosks, cafeteria, conference hall, multi-purpose hall, tech studio, lecture hall, pro-shops, equipment fitment studio, tapas corners, swimming pool, sauna, steam and other facilities.
A Golf Academy as centre of excellence is also being established.
Besides, it has state of the art computerized automatic irrigation system for Intelligent use of water, underground drainage systems and storm water recharge well for conservation of water.
Delhi Development Authority has played an important role in building sports infrastructure and promotion of sports in the national capital.
At present, DDA has 17 sports complexes, 3 mini sports complexes, 2 public golf courses, 17 swimming pools and 40 multigyms.
Besides, Centres of Excellence are being developed in many sports like wrestling, weight lifting, boxing, judo, kabaddi, tennis, shooting, football, hockey in various sectors of Dwarka and Centre of Excellence in aquatics in Sector 33 Rohini. These Centres of Excellence of Dwarka are likely to be completed soon. These state of the art complexes will play vital role in increasing medal tally of Indian sportspersons at global events.
