Meerut, Dec 24: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of the proposed Sports University to be set up in the name of hockey wizard Major Dhyan Chand in Meerut on January 2.

The university will come up at Salawa village in Sardhana Tehsil some 32 km from the district headquarters.

Official sources said 30,000 players from Meerut, Saharanpur, Moradabad, Aligarh, and Agra divisions would participate in the foundation laying ceremony. Arrangement of special buses has been made to bring the players.

Preparations are afoot at the administrative and police levels after the PM program was finalised.

Union Animal Husbandry and Dairy Minister of State Sanjeev Balyan visited Salawa village and held a meeting with Divisional Commissioner Surendra Singh to check preparedness.

The Uttar Pradesh government announced to set up the Sports University in Merrut, famous for its sports products, in January this year. In August, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced to name the university after the hockey wizard. (UNI)