Swimming pools to open today across Kolkata

KOLKATA: Clubs, hotels and resorts across the city have started sending messages to their patrons and members, welcoming them back to hit the pools from Tuesday. However, swimming coaching centres are still keeping their doors shut, apprehending very nominal admissions for this session with the swimming season almost coming to an end.
The state government had issued an order on Friday, allowing swimming pools to reopen with 50% capacity at any point of time. The pools had been shut since April this year.
“We are welcoming back our members to the pool from Tuesday. We have finished our clean up and sanitization process at the pool, so we are ready to allow our members to get in the pool from Tuesday,” said Tolly Club CEO, Anil Mukherjee.
“We will strictly abide by the restriction,” said Sanjay Karmakar, Operations Manager, Princeton Club.
Swimming coaching centres, however, rued at the timing of the order as the swimming season is due to end by September. “With schools yet to open, we cannot risk small children by calling them back to the pools,” said Aurobindo Roy, secretary of Indian Life Saving Society at Rabindra Sarobar.