Guwahati, Feb. 7: The Assam Cricket Association (ACA) will start work on the proposed cricket stadium at Barsapara Ground here as soon as the ongoing legal tangles over the January 22 elections for the new governing body are settled.

With Board of Control for Cricket in India sanctioning Rs 10 crore for the stadium, the newly elected management of the apex body, which was yet to assume charge of office, has resolved to erect the Rs 30-crore stadium within its next four-year term.

BCCI chief Sharad Pawar, who visited the ground on February 1, had announced the financial grant, which was increased from the earlier sanction of Rs 4 crore, sanctioned by the Jagmohan Dalmiya dispensation.

The ACA is going to float tenders for the stadium construction work within a couple of days.

ACA secretary Bikash Baruah said the construction was delayed due to litigation over eviction of encroachers on the ground. The ground was allotted to the ACA early last year.

Baruah also said work on the Assam Cricket Academy, which was supposed to be restructured, would be on in full swing as soon as the new dispensation assumes office.

The BCCI has also assured that it will consider setting up a unit of the National Cricket Academy here once the Barsapara Stadium is constructed.

On preparations for the April 9 One-Day International between India and England, Baruah said the ongoing legal tangles and subsequent delay in assumption of charge by the new body were hampering it to some extent.