Water leaking from the roof of indoor hall
Dy Director Patil says, maintenance, repair work in progress
By Paritosh Pramanik
NAGPUR, July 6
IT’S an Indoor Hall, no it’s a WATER PARK!!!
Welcome to the Indoor Hall of Divisional Sports Complex, situated in Mankapur, Koradi Road.
If anybody is eager to enjoy 'waterfall' in the city, pay a visit to the indoor hall during the rainy season.
Come rains and the ceiling starts leaking from various corners making it difficult for the shuttlers, paddlers, karatekas, judokas and other budding players to practice.
For years, tall claims have been made by politicians to make Nagpur a sporting hub. But the harsh reality is that hardly anything concrete has been done for the past many years.
Nagpur city is blessed with top leaders like Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, former Maharashtra Chief Minister and current Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to name a few. But despite these stalwarts' presence, sports has been neglected for years.
The present condition of the indoor hall of Divisional Sports Complex is the best example.
In March early this year, a whopping Rs 746 crore was sanctioned for the sports infrastructure development and upgradation of the Divisional Sports Complex. But till date not a single brick has been put in place.
Officials only say, the paperwork is in process and construction work will begin soon.
SOON... How soon? Even they don’t know.
If the indoor hall is leaking, the synthetic track which was laid a few years back is inviting injuries to the athletes as it is torn in some areas.
A video has gone viral on social media where rain water can be seen pouring inside the hall from the roof with a budding shuttler still managing to continue her practice.
When contacted, Shekhar Patil, Deputy Director, Sports and Youth Services, Nagpur Division, said that maintenance work is being carried out regularly,
“The indoor hall is more than a decade old. It is not that we don’t carry out maintenance work. The workers are doing their job regularly. Daily, the leakage on the roof is identified and plugged. Today’s leakage is at another location. This is a new leakage and we will definitely repair it,” said Patil.
It is surprising that despite financial allocations for the Divisional Sports Complex in crores, hardly any development is seen in the recent past.
If we go by records, the State Government had disbursed Rs 51.20 crore for the Complex. Similarly, Rs 63.20 crore was also disbursed by the District Planning Committee from the Playground Development Scheme.
Earlier this year, a proposal of Rs 683.79 crore was put up for the upgradation and renovation of the complex. Accordingly, the government had approved Rs 746.99 crore through which the latest sports infrastructure was to be developed.
In March 2023, the State Government had allocated another Rs 100 crore for the sports complex.
In January, 2020, the then State Government had proposed an ambitious Divisional Sports Complex expansion plan worth Rs 123 crore.
The plan included construction of an international standard swimming pool, shooting range, hockey astro turf, a multipurpose sports indoor hall, an athletics track for practice apart from renovation of the present indoor hall.
The hockey astro turf and shooting range were proposed at the far corner of the premises, behind the athletics synthetic track gallery.
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