GUWAHATI: In March this year, making use of space, an empty area under a flyover in Mumbai was turned into a sports complex.
In this complex, the civic body had converted the space into basketball and badminton courts.
Following the Mumbai urban local body, the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) is also planning to turn the empty spaces under the flyovers into sports complexes.
GMC Mayor Mrigen Sarania talking to G Plus said, “A women's non-government organisation has approached us with the idea and we will start to work on it soon.”
The Mayor said that initially the empty space under AT Road flyover near Aathgaon will be converted into a sports complex, and if the project is successful, the same idea will be implemented in other flyovers in the city wherever there will be available space.
He said that very soon the city will get around 7 new flyovers and if all the spaces are developed which he claimed the GMC has a plan for, then many sports complexes could be developed in the city.
He agreed that at present many spaces under the flyovers are not efficiently utilised and are encroached on by street vendors.
He said that all unauthorised street vendors from under the flyovers will be evicted and the spaces will be developed.
The sports complex in Mumbai has been created under the Sanpada flyover that connects Sector 16 and Sector 8.
The civic body there used different colours to give the space an attractive look.
According to reports, the project was launched in 2021 by the Mumbai civic body and was opened for public use in December 2022.
The Mayor claimed that the GMC has also created some public toilets under the flyovers in Guwahati.
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