There is a special hotel in the heart of the town to cater to the needs of officials and athletes who have to stay overnight in order to attend to their affairs. But since of late, families and children too have been making use of this hotel. Now officials, who are in charge of this [...]

The Sunday Times Sri Lanka

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There is a special hotel in the heart of the town to cater to the needs of officials and athletes who have to stay overnight in order to attend to their affairs. But since of late, families and children too have been making use of this hotel. Now officials, who are in charge of this hotel are wondering how this could be curbed.

EXORBITANT FUNDS
The outstation sports venue at a historic town which is the Talk of the Town these days with a foreign team already on our soil. Earlier the cost to update the floodlights to this venue was estimated at Rs. 50 million. Now the estimated sum has risen to Rs. 65 million! The sports body in charge of this project says that the additional sum of Rs. 15 million is to maintain the venue. This, however, does not come under the sports body’s purview. How can the extra millions be accounted?

NO TENDERS
This sport has requested two busses and several other vehicles in order to transport officials and players to various venues. The body in charge of accounts had flatly turned down the offer as no tenders had been called for this project.

GOING TO WASTE
A netball court was built by a former sports boss so that players could make use of this venue at any time of the day. Now the ground is going to waste as players are not making use of it. Officials are wondering why this court was ever built as a considerable sum had been spent towards it.

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