stakeholders understood that training sites are as important as actual playing stadia in a number of places they had been built from scratch in the beginning it was difficult but at this point in time we dont have any problem all the four cities will have international standard training grounds with floodlights as required by fifathis training venues is where a lot of work is happening currently the only venue where all the training grounds were ready from the beginning is in goa because they had it from before we are using three from the grounds used in lusofonia games in 2014 and another training ground used during the from afc u16 championships last yearin delhi there will be two training grounds inside the jln stadium complex the warmup pitch and another at the lawn bowls field work is ongoing in these two training grounds the third training facility is the sudev football club ground in north delhi then we are finalising an agreement for the rugby stadium at delhi university which was used during 2010 cwg the ground is in very good shape they kept it quite nicelyin kolkata we are very lucky as two of the grounds are inside the salt lake stadium complex right at the side of main stadium the other two are inside sai centre which is very nearby all four training grounds are within 500m radius of the main stadium those are almost ready ceppi said that budget for the tournament was extremely tight but manageable and the fund constraint will not have impact on the standard of the facilitiesthis is a tournament with an extremely tight budget the budget is nowhere near what people think but at the same time i think it is a realistic budget without frills and thrills this forces us to have a plan in advance when you have a plan in the last minute your cost will go all over the place it has been spent in a smart way and it has been done in a planned way to avoid cost over runs he saidit the budget is not a huge amount as compared to other sporting events in india but we were sure that with the existing facilities with a certain amount of renovations we can do it they the facilities would be upto standards the most amount of fund is spent on training grounds which i see is an opportunity to develop indian football in futuregiving details about the funds he said the central government has sanctioned rs 95 crore as central assistance for states to develop infrastructure plus for overlays 70 per cent of the rs 95 crore goes to states and 30 per cent for use on overlays apart from that the government has sanctioned rs 25 crore as contingency fund in case there are any unforeseen issuesthen it is the responsibility of each state to get the infrastructure ready states have also spent and invested particularly in training sites kochi has