vadodara a tennis court and a badminton court of international standards an amphitheatre a basketball court a volleyball turf and a huge skating ring cops posted in the city along with their families will enjoy quality sports facilities and that too without paying hefty fees a sprawling sports complex is all set to come up in the heart of city in pratapnagar headquarters within a year and it will be the first sports complex in gujarat that will be constructed and managed by cops we are planning to construct a sports complex that will provide all kind of facilities to cops and their family members in the city the sports complex will come up on a piece of land in the headquarters that is lying unused said joint police commissioner g s malik the idea is to encourage sports culture among policemen every cop is a sportsperson and playing any kind of sport helps them in keeping fit and agile the sports complex will be open to cops posted in the city and their family members malik told toi citizens too will be able to use the sports complex four turfs have been planned on four corners of the ground apart from a skating ring that will cater to kids of policemen work on preparing badminton court has already begun and it will be over within a month we have already started working on construction of the sports complex and all the sports turfs will be ready within a year it is a publicprivate partnership project while some of the money has come from the government some has come from private donors said dcp administration pk roshan the project took off after police commissioner rakesh asthaana took personal interest in it and asked pratapnagar headquarters police inspector kuldeep sharma to monitor construction of the complex roshan is incharge of the ambitious project that will change the face of headquarters at present 232 families of policemen stay in the headquarters and their kids have to pay hefty fees for getting access to quality sports facilities in the city children of many cops have nothing to do in free time instead of whiling away their time they will now be able to use skating rink and other facilities sharma said an amphitheatre has also been planned at the centre of the complex that can host cultural programmes and other events throughout the year in fact the city police are planning to use the ground for hosting their annual garba festival tusharteretimesgroupcom