Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 30: Officials of Jammu and Kashmir Sports Council were left red faced on Sunday when the power supply went off during the prize distribution ceremony of 45th J&K state badminton championship at Indoor Sports Complex MA Stadium here.
The chaos prevailed in the stadium and the prizes were distributed under the flash lights of mobile phones.
Former Minster for Industries and Commerce Chander Prakash Ganga, who was the chief guest on the occasion, kept on distributing the prizes in darkness.
Sources told Early Times at the first instance power went off around 2:30 PM and was restored at 5 PM following which men's single final matches were played. As soon as these matches ended the light went out again plunging entire indoor stadium into darkness as there was no power back up available.
Sources said that there is a power genset for Indoor Sports Complex which was not put J&K Sports Council fails to keep power back ready
One of the players said, "Hundreds of crores were provided by the central government under Khelo India, moreover the stadium is being renovated to bring it at par with international stadiums but the pathetic conditions of the complex shows that nothing is being done practically and all these claims are confined to papers only." | 