India, May 15 -- LUCKNOW The Lucknow Municipal Corporation's shooting range constructed near Amausi airport over a decade ago continues to be in a state of neglect. Left incomplete after 2012, the facility is gathering dust and lying abandoned with no official visit in months, except for some guards deployed by the civic body at the premises.

The range, which once held a promise of meeting Olympic standards, is a picture of crumbling infrastructure. Locked gates of building blocks, broken glasses, stray cattle occupying the buildings and no proper road connectivity are among the problems plaguing the site, revealed a ground check of the site by Hindustan Times on Tuesday.

An LMC official said the shooting range was completed in 2012 wit...