Honourable Prime Minister, Madav Kumar Nepal laid the fundation stone of the National Sports Academy at Gauritar, Makawanpur on june 11, 2009.
PM vowed to provide necessary help to complete the Academy, the first of its kind in Nepal. Accepting the fact that the sports was never in government's priority list, the PM also appealed the locals to contirbute in the construction of the Academy. He also added that Nepali sports had failed to progress as the players were being missused.
The National Sports Council sports' governing body of the country has estimated to complete the project in 5 years and at the cost of Rs. 1.5 billion. The NSC is contructing the Academy on the 23 acres of land in Gauritar, Hetauda. The site is located 6 kms east of the main city of Hetauda and was used as a venue for the first inter city which was allocated to build multipurpose sports covered Hall some 25 years ago.
The NSC has planned to begin the first phase of the ambitious project at the cost of Rs. 20 million. The first phase includes fencing the whole area, preparing a football field and constructing a hostel. The NSC has aimed to build indoor and outdoor facilities for almost all the sports disciplines, hostel and recreation centre within the academy. Apart from the pratice ground for cricket, the Academy will have swimming pool, judo, gymnastic halls and multipurpose covered Hall. The academy will also incorporate the academic programmes, graduation and post graduation in all the sports displinces, sports research units and training for players and coaches.
NSC is funding the project from the money it saved from the recently held Fifth National Games. The NSC had set a side Rs. 250 million to conduct the games. The NSC has planned to raise Rs. 11.5 million per year from the local tax from Makawanpur district.