05 July,2010 09:12 AM IST | | MiD-DAY Correspondent
Organising Committee gives green signal to floating giant screens above Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium to broadcast opening and closing ceremonies
If you haven't managed to get tickets or passes to the opening and closing ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games, do not fret. Just look up. No, divinity has nothing to do with it. You can thank the CWG Organising Committee instead, which has approved the idea of suspending four giant screens above the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium for live telecast of these events.
Work to be done: The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in central Delhi where
the project will be implemented.
Each screen will be kept hanging with the help of an 80-metre-long by 60-metre-wide balloon and these will be visible from all sides of the stadium. According to sources the balloons, which will be procured from Europe, would be full of Helium gas keeping them afloat.
The balloons would be tied to the ground with a 40-metre-long rope each. This is a first of its kind attempt in the country.
The screens will air the events directly from the ground, including a laser show among amidst other programmes. Plans to beautify the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium are also going ahead with urgency and the organising committee has planned to give the entire stadium the shape of a crown with special lighting arrangements.
In fact Rs 14 crore is being spent only on illuminating the stadium to give it a state-of-the-art look. The opening and closing ceremonies will begin at 5:30 pm on October 3 and 14 respectively and the lighting arrangements have been planned specifically for the nights when all the bulbs would be kept lit for the entire period of the Games.
Meanwhile, a 150-metre tunnel is being constructed at the stadium, which will open up at its centre. The tunnel connecting both ends of the stadium will be used by performers to enter the ground during the ceremonies.
