FOREWORD

Venue Infrastructure
After careful assessment of the Venues available in
Guwahati & Shillong and the work that needed to
be put in to make the venues ready to host Games
of this magnitude, 12 Venues were selected in the
city of Guwahati with 11 being the ones used for
the National Games held in 2007 and one newly
constructed squash court. For Shillong 5 venues
were selected with all the venues being existing
ones and requiring only upgradation works. State
Governments of Assam & Meghalaya took the
task of infrastructure development as per the
requirements of the Competition Directors to
bring the venues upto the level of international
competition standards. The State Governments
and OC-SAG in close coordination monitored the
progress of development on weekly basis with
strict timelines set for each and every task at hand.
State Governments of Assam & Meghalaya
involved all relevant departments and left no
stone unturned to push the contractors to finish
the infrastructure upgradation on time and to
ensure that venues were handed over to OC-SAG
for hosting the event by 20th January 2016 which
allowed the Organising Committee to test the
venues for operational readiness. The humungous
task of completing the new squash court was
completed in a record time of just two and a half
months.
The Temporary Overlays
In addition to the renovation and upgradation of
venues, scoping of temporary overlays was done
keeping in mind the operational requirement of
functional areas. Structural drawings for all the
venues were generated after survey of the venues
and analysis of the additional requirement for
overlays. The external overlays included structures
for room spaces, partitioning, black masking,
fencing, electrical layout , trapeze etc.
The sports competitions of the 12th South Asian
Games were executed faultlessly, to the greatest
satisfaction of the athletes and the technical
officials. The venues and their facilities proved
absolutely conducive to the competitions, which
resulted in the smooth functioning of all the
competitions despite the short period within
which the two host cities Guwahati and Shillong
had to organise the games. The 22 sporting
disciplines that took place in the 17 venues with
state-of-the art facilities, meticulously maintained
schedules, orderly transport system and
unprecedented security arrangements were the
USPs during the games.
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