JU to soon have Olympic size Swimming pool, Tennis Courts.

 JU to soon have Olympic size Swimming pool, Tennis Courts.

Yash Khajuria                                                 12/21/2012 7:33:32 PM
JAMMU, Dec 21: In a significant move to promote sports and provide a platform to budding talent of students, Jammu University will soon have its own international level swimming pool, Basket ball and Lawn tennis Courts to host various national and Inter varsity level tourneys in future. 

Sources have said that JU administration is all set to introduce state of the art infrastructure for the scholars within the university premises. New infrastructure include an Olympic size swimming pool (50 meters) with Diving facilities, Basket ball Court, and two Lawn Tennis Courts for the students. 

Sources said that the architects and experts recently gave a demonstration of the infrastructure to the Vice Chancellor of Jammu University and the other Committee members. 

It is pertinent to mention here that soon after his joining, MP Singh Ishar, Vice - Chancellor Jammu University had made stress on raising new sports infrastructures in Jammu University. 

“Officials from the planning committee have said infrastructure is to set up in the space adjacent to the sites of Zorawar Singh auditorium and gymnasium hall”, sources said. 

A senior officer within JU said that tendering process for the project is in final process and JU works department will draw tenders. 

In absence of basic infrastructure for the training of the sportspersons, Directorate of Sports and Physical Education had not sent its teams for competing in Inter-Varsity competitions in many disciplines for which the director sports and physical education had also faced criticism.
Director sports and physical education Prof Dhyan Singh Bhau had claimed that in the lapse of the infrastructure the teams were not trained enough to compete at the least level championships and it was better to not even field a team instead of fielding weak teams for participation in Inter-Varsity and any other national level competitions. 

When contacted to the Vice Chancellor of Jammu University Mohan pal singh Ishar while confirming the development he said that proposal has came for the said project and we are scheduled in the same process. “The University administration is committed to provide the best infrastructure to scholars” he added. 

“There is a set procedure for the selection of teams for the tournaments and we are stick to it. The recent cancellation of participation of some teams in their respected disciplines is one such example of that. The preparation of teams was not up to the mark and bad performance of the team creates a bad image of the university” he said. 

However it will take time to come up with such infrastructure but, As soon as we will have our own infrastructure for the training and grooming of the raw talent we are expected to have promising outcomes especially in certain disciplines, he added.