navi mumbai residents have alleged that cidcos big ticket sports development project at kharghar called football maharashtra centre of excellence has been lying unused for over a year now since it was inaugurated by the then chief minister uddhav thackeray on january 16 last year two pitches out of four planned were officially thrown open during the inauguration time which remained a nonstarter so far complained residents questions are being raised about the objective of the mega sporting facility when the local talents are not privileged enough to hone their football skill on stateoftheart pitches developed in the neighbourhood cidco said the project is in progress though three pitches are ready according to a football fan suraj s its sheer waste of public money the international standard sporting facility is gathering dust due to no activity local talents should be allowed to practice here for promotion of the game and sportsmanship such a facility is hardly available in the entire mumbai metropolitan region which has three practice grounds another resident kiran patil said our kids are deprived of using the stateofart football ground developed by cidco