Balewadi sports complex faces water shortage, govt urges PMC to construct separate water tank

The state office of Sports Academy is in the complex and the government run Sports Academy for Pune district is in the sports complex with the facility of hostels for students and staff. The Sports complex has an athletics stadium, indoor hall, gymnastic hall, wrestling hall, three hostel buildings for sportspersons, Kho-Kho, kabaddi, volleyball, basketball, handball, swimming pool, lawn tennis, cycling velodrome and staff quarters. It also has an independent hostel facility for students of sports academies with 72 rooms for boys and 63 rooms for girls wherein 400 students can stay. It also has 30 families of staff residing in the complex.

For Commonwealth Games, additional sports facilities were increased in the complex with development of a badminton hall, table tennis hall, shooting range, fitness centre, sports Science centre, two new hostels, and a swimming pool for practice. The overall seating capacity in the sports complex is 11,000.

“The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has been supplying four lakh liters of water every day for the sports complex since the beginning. However, the increased facility and use of sports complex has increased the water supply needed for the sports complex. Thus, the PMC has been urged to provide at least three lakh litres of water per day to the sports complex,” said Sudhir More, Deputy Director of state Sports and Youth Service department.

He said Guardian minister Ajit Pawar directed PMC to provide the required water supply to the sports complex and in return the sports complex should provide land to PMC for construction of overhead water tanks for the sports complex and Sus-Mahalunge area. “The sports complex will not charge any compensation for land given to PMC and the civic body too should not seek any financial support for the construction of a water tank. The PMC would provide three lakh litre water to sports complex every day at no cost and would levy nominal rate if excess water is used,” said More.

Municipal Commissioner Naval Kishore Ram said that the Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex was supplied water by PCMC but now the Mahalunge village where the part of sports facility is developed has been included in PMC jurisdiction so it was the responsibility of the Pune civic body to provide water supply to the sports complex. “It would be appropriate to get the land for the overhead water tank from the sports complex. There is no land available for the purpose so the project to construct an overhead tank for supplying to Sus and Mahalunge has been delayed,” he said.

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