Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is scheduled to visit Rourkela on March 10. He will be the chief guest at the inaugural ceremony of the FIH Hockey Pro League.
Rourkela will host all six matches, where the three teams will play each other twice. India will clash with Germany in the first match on March 10 while the latter will play Australia on March 11. India and Australia will go head-to-head on March 12 and on March 13, Germany and India will lock horns for the second time. The World Champions will then take on Australia on March 14. The final match in Rourkela will be played on March 15, with India taking on Australia for the second time, according to Hockey India.
The CM will also inaugurate the Birsa Munda Athletics Stadium in the Steel City, hockey training centre and astroturf stadiums at different places in Sundargarh district. He will lay foundation stones and inaugurate some other development projects in the district, informed BJD MLA Sharada Prasad Nayak.