Residents rue non-sporting events damaging playground in Guwahati

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: The local people of Boripara in the Maligaon area have alleged that the rampant use of the playground of Tarun Sangha Puthibharal for non-sporting activities like marriage, death ceremony and other functions have made the field unfit for sporting activities.

The citizens of the locality alleged that the field which was given a facelift by spending lakhs of rupees at the mercy of local MLA and Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in 2010 is allowed to hold marriages and other non-sporting functions in exchange of money as rentals leading the field to its current pathetic plight.

Apart from the playground, the educational atmosphere in the four educational institutions located near the field in the area is affected by these non-sporting events. Even there have been cases of students of the nearby schools getting injured because of the nails, pieces of wood left out on the field after every non-sporting programmes in the field.

The local alleged that the term of the present committee of the Sangha expired on January 2020 but there has been no effort in their part to reconstitute the committee. The locals seek attention over this by Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.

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