Giving a fillip to infrastructure in the town, the govt laid the foundation stone of Punjab’s first dedicated sports university and a bus stand, along with various other development projects in Patiala. The Maharaja Bhupinder Singh Sports University will be developed at a cost of Rs 500 crore of which Rs 60 crore will be invested in the initial phase for the development of academic and administrative blocks, boys and girls’ hostels and a boundary wall and internal roads in the campus.
Maharaja Bhupindra Singh, in whose memory the university is being established, and whose 129th birth anniversary falls on the occasion of Dasehra.              

• The university will help in the scientific development of sportspersons and coaches.
• The panchayat and people of Sidhuwal,gave the  land free of cost for the sports university and had earlier donated land for the law university as well.  
• The staff and students would be able to move into the campus by 2022.
• They university will offer multiple courses, many of which are adopted from UK’s Loughborough University, whose Vice Chancellor Robert Allison’s video message was telecast at the foundation stone laying event. . 
• The launch of the new hi-tech bus stand would fulfil a longstanding demand of the people of Patiala.
• A  water supply project was also launched as part of Phase-II of the government’s Urban Environment Improvement Programme.