After being shut down for nearly three years, Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation’s (GVMC) Aqua Sports Complex at Beach Road will probably be thrown open to the general public very quickly. The Aqua Sports Complex, which is popularly often known as municipal swimming pool, has undergone large renovation.

The municipal pool was shut simply earlier than the COVID-19 to bear renovation. The renovation works had been delayed additional because of the two-year-long COVID-19 pandemic restrictions and different causes. Though the renovation exercise has been happening for a 12 months, the works actually picked up throughout the previous few months with the deployment of further staff. Works on the entrance arch, flooring, laying of latest tiles, repairing/changing new pipelines, equipment, the diving board, lighting and portray had been accomplished. GVMC Commissioner C.M. Saikanth Varma supervised the renovation actions. The GVMC has additionally organized ornamental lights on the entrance of the advanced.

Mr. Varma inspected the works together with Engineering Department officers on Saturday evening. According to him, lighting underneath the pool, flooring and sharpening works had been happening, and your complete work can be accomplished within the subsequent two to a few days and so they had been planning to inaugurate the renovated advanced throughout this week.

The Aqua Sports Complex was as soon as a paradise for the budding swimmers, schoolchildren and athletes within the metropolis. Due to the closure of the municipal pool for the final three years, no main swimming occasions had been performed within the metropolis. Moreover, there was no scope for the conduct of annual summer time swimming teaching camps for the youngsters, although the demand for these camps was big. The non-availability of the pool has not solely affected the expansion of the enthusiastic swimmers from town, however has additionally made the coastal metropolis unavailable for a lot of nationwide and worldwide swimming occasions through the years. According to a number of swimmers, the Aqua Sports Complex has its personal significance and had nurtured a whole lot of swimmers.