Director General Sports Punjab Dr Asif Tufail inaugurates the 11th Inter-School & Inter-College Games at a grand colourful ceremony

Director General Sports Punjab Dr Asif Tufail inaugurated the 11th Inter-School & Inter-College Games at a grand colourful ceremony at the Punjab Stadium on Wednesday.
Director Sports Yasmeen Akhtar, Deputy Secretary Sports Liaqat Ali, Secretary POA Khalid Mehmood, PbOA Secretary General Idris Haider Khawaja, Prof Abdul Mannan of Unique Group of Schools, Dr Asad Abbas, Chief Sports Consultant Hafeez Bhatti, District Sports Officer Lahore Tanveer Shah, Assistant Directors M Waseem, M Sajid, senior athletics coach Salman Butt and a large number of teachers, officials and students from hundreds of schools and colleges were also present on this occasion.
While addressing the opening ceremony, Director General Sports Punjab Dr Asif Tufail, who was the chief guest at the inaugural ceremony, announced that provincial govt will give stipends to talented athletes from different colleges and schools as per the vision of Punjab Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi from January 1, 2024.
Director General Sports Punjab Dr Asif Tufail said these talented children are the future of our country. “We are quite hopeful that we will be able to find several talented athletes from these students and these shining players will serve the national teams in future,” he added.
Director General Sports Punjab Dr Asif Tufail also witnessed exciting competitions and performances on this occasion. He also distributed trophies among the officials of schools and colleges which emerged top position holders in the march past. Punjab College, GCU and Akhuwwat College Kasur grabbed top positions among the colleges while American Lycetuff, DPS Model Town and Kinston were the top three schools.
As many as 8000 male and female students from hundreds of schools and colleges are participating in 22 sports disciplines during the 5-day games to be played till November 5, 2023.