The Rs 250-crore centre, which is awaiting the final approval of the chief minister, will be spread over 11 acres of land and will come up at the site which at present houses the residences of city SP and district judge, MLA's bungalow along with the division office of the building construction department. They all will be demolished in phases.

The new structure will have the capacity to accommodate 5,000 people at a time.

According to the Principal Secretary, Building Construction Department, Sudhir Kumar, the centre will have a plenary hall, cultural and media centres, VIP lounge, an entertainment corner, convention zone, concourse area with lifestyle shopping and a food court.

He also said that three meeting halls with a seating capacity of around 50 to 300 will be constructed for business and official meetings. There will be enough space to hold an event like book fair and small political meetings.

Shri Krishna Memorial Hall, which came up more than three decades back and which is not far away from the planned convention centre and conference room in Indira Gandhi Planetarium, which came up in 1993, would fade into insignificance once the new structure comes up.

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