TRIPUNITHURA: If all goes as per the plan of authorities, Tripunithura Government Arts College will get its own stadium soon.
According to Public Works Department (PWD) Building Division officials, the stadium will be built on 8 acres of land belonging to the college. “We have not yet prepared a detailed project plan, including facilities to be arranged at the stadium. However, we have decided to complete the project in multiple phases in accordance with the fund allotments of the state government. Now, for beginning the project, the government had allotted `94.92 lakh and we have already floated tenders for the initial phase of work,” said C T Salomi, PWD Executive Engineer.
Assistant Engineer John Simil, who is the field in charge of the project, said the first phase would be the difficult part in the whole process of constructing the stadium. “In this stage, we are planning to level the land by dumping adequate quantity of soil and a compound wall will be constructed around the ground. For this, we will also have to construct a new road to the area,” he said.
The college authorities said that the stadium is likely to enhance the status of the college. “We had forwarded several requests to the authorities for allotting fund for the proposed stadium. Students have been conducting protests against the municipality for dumping wastes on the college ground” said Varghese C Abraham, college principal.