ahmedabad while the state government and city authorities have plans to set up internationalstandard sports facilities to host the 2036 olympics the sports facilities that have come up in the last decade are rotting due to the civic authorities apathy ironically while sports facilities such as swimming pools skating rinks volleyball and basketball courts that cost around a hundred crore are shut for years the civic body has planned more facilities with much greater expenseone defunct facility is the swimming pool in navrangpura which has been shut for the last decade due to lack of maintenance the pool is now almost full of debris the skating rink costing rs 1 crore in juna vadaj near mp ni chaali has started resembling ruins of ancient roman arenas similarly the skating rink in ghodasar has been closed for two yearssources said ten such facilities built in the last decade by ahmedabad municipal corporation amc and ahmedabad urban development authority auda are now defunct or have not opened for the public at all auda built volleyballbasketball courts at bopal garden at a cost of rs 45 crore the garden and courts were handed over to amc four and a half years ago but the courts have never been opened to the publicin the last decade amc sanctioned rs 16334 crore sports facilities in the city and by 202122 the civic body claims to have spent rs 10034 crorein 201718 amc planned to upgrade 14 swimming pools at a cost of rs 20 crore under this project the civic body claimed it would develop an olympicssize pool in sabarmati tp scheme 23 and build new swimming pools in chandkheda vastral and ramolhathijan the amc sanctioned rs 418 crore for building swimming pools in 201819 the amc has upgraded 14 pools and built one in vastral while two in chandkheda and ramolhathijan are being built in 201920 amc announced plans to set up 40 single and double tennis courts in areas such as bodakdev thaltej gota paldi and memnagar and sanctioned rs 10 crore for this of these 20 courts have been built but amc has not found an agency to operate and maintain them and they have not been opened for the public amc scrapped the plan for building the remaining 20 courtsthe civic body has started building a sports complex in vastral at a cost of rs 59 crore the complex has an athletics track football ground four tennis courts badminton court basketball court and five table tennis courts the amc also has plans of setting up a similar sports complex in gota at an expense of rs 59 crore