Sports Players up in arms against Sports Council over delay in opening of Indoor Sports Complex Udhampur Sports Council is making mockery of “Khelo India” Slogan at Udhampur: UTTA

Akshay Mahajan
UDHAMPUR, 26 June GNS: Sports players of Udhampur today staged massive protest under the banner of District Table Tennis Association Udhampur against J&K Sports Council over delay in opening of Indoor Sports Complex Udhampur at Subash Stadium Udhampur.

While interacting with media persons, Abhay Mahajan (national table tennis player) said that on 13 Nov 2013 foundation stone of the complex was laid by then sports minister with 9 months assurance but several deadlines missed and after 7 yrs much hyped project has finally completed & on 11 June 2019 inauguration of the project by Hon’ble Governor was scheduled but due to some reasons the Governor’s visit stands canceled & inauguration of the complex hanged in the mid way. He informs that they had repeatedly apprised the District Administration & Sports Council with the issue but nothing has been done yet.

Further, Another National Table Tennis Player Gourav Sharma said that “Our practice has been stopped due to the casual approach of Sports Council towards sports as they are playing with the future of Youngsters, Sports council is completely failed to address the issues of Youngsters, he alleged

They said that Sports Council is making the mockery of “Khelo India” as the players are forced to quit their favourite game due to the delay in opening of Indoor Sports Complex.

Later, Sports lovers also urged to Hon’ble Governor to look into the matter at the earliest & demands to inaugurate Indoor sports Complex Udhampur soon.

Harshit Ramotra, Madhav Sharma, Sudhansh Verma, Amitosh Singh, Hardev Singh, Sourav Sharma, Sparsh, Rudraksh etc were also present.