kolhapur acting district collector nandkumar katkar has asked concerned authorities to speed up the divisional sports complex work lying incomplete for the past five yearsin a review meeting conducted last week katkar asked the officials to finish the incomplete work of lawn tennis courts and open it by january 1 he also asked the officials to finish the pending work and conduct various sports competitions there at the earliestpublic works departments pwd assistant engineer j d patil district sports officer manik waghmare and deputy director of divisional information office satish lalit were present for the review meetingkatkar said at the divisional sports complex budding athletes can train in basketball volleyball khokho kabaddi and athletics he also instructed to immediately repair the minor works and make the ground available to schools and sports organisationsprepare a proposal required to start the fully functional shooting range in the complex and do comply with the swimming pool instructions given by divisional commissioner katkar instructed the sports departmentnotably the work for the divisional sports complex which was on hold had got delayed several times due to pending payment issues of the contractors earlier in pastthe project that started in 2009 was planned to finish by 2011 however it is still under construction despite three years delay and several reasons like fund unavailability technical problems in construction the complex is yet to be finished the swimming pool hostel and other building infrastructure is also incompletethe proposed 60000 square meter sports complex was supposed to finish its first stage by january 2011 however excessive rain restricted the work to progress in the year 2010 and later the contractors stopped the work almost for 8 months due to pending bills in the year 2011