visakhapatnam the sports fraternity of vizag is of the opinion that if the city were to indeed become the executive capital vizags sports infrastructure could get a significant boosttipped to be a smart city the city is a popular sporting hub however it is yet to have the necessary sports infrastructure even though successive governments have proposed many sports projects in the city over the years most of them have not translated into actionspeaking to toi n vijay mohan director of physical education of andhra university au said that chief minister ys jaganmohan reddy needs to address the issue of sports infrastructure of the city we hope that vizag gets international standard infrastructure if the city becomes the executive capital of the state mohan addeda comprehensive plan is required to address the required sports infrastructure he addedaccording to people from the fraternity the city needs stadia of high standards with synthetic poly grass and astro turf with floodlights to organise national and international sporting events the city also needs airconditioned indoor stadia for badminton basketball volleyball kabaddi and boxing among other indoor events they saymeanwhile rk purushotham general secretary of andhra pradesh olympics association apoa said the lack of sports infrastructure is a major hindrance of sports talent in the state vizag has the potential to host national and international events if the city is equipped with international standard grounds and stadiawe expect that the government will develop sports infrastructure in the city if the executive capital proposal becomes a reality purushotham maintainedrevenue officials in vizag have begun the exercise to identify suitable land for the proposed badminton academy of pv sindhu chief minister ys jaganmohan reddy had assured her of a 5 acre land allotment in vizag for an academymoreover officials of the district sports authority said that the state government has planned to set up an integrated sports complex at the aganampudi area in vizag the visakhapatnam district administration has allotted 80 acres land to the sports authority of andhra pradesh saap which needs 75 acres more at least rs 400 crore will be required for the project officials informedolympian mv manikyalu said andhra pradeshs image has suffered in terms of sports as we do not have sporting icons or great stadia following the bifurcation of the state the new government has to develop sports infrastructure in vizag to produce talented sportspersons and to host major events