India, Jan. 4 -- Polling booths and temporary tents being erected at Holy Cross Convent School for the upcoming municipal elections could destroy a new athletics track, even as the school keeps up pressure on the civic body to get the booths relocated.

The surface was recently laid on the new athletics track, built at a cost Rs.80 lakh, and any pressure on it, at this stage, could cause irreversible damage, the school says.

The school claims they had met Umesh Birari, deputy municipal commissioner (elections), TMC, on Friday and asked the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) to shift the booths to other spaces in the school.

"They said they would direct the civic staff to relocate the booths but work continues on the ground and track," sa...