Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Muzaffar Khan Sial presided over an important meeting at Punjab Stadium on Thursday.
Director General Sports Punjab Pervez Iqbal, Additional Secretary Sports Farhan Farooq, Deputy Secretary Marhaba Naimat, Project Director PMU Qaiser Raza and his teams from all zones and all Divisional Sports Officers of the province attended the high profile meeting.
The high profile meeting was convened to find ways and means about how to earn revenue from new and existing sports schemes. The model of a couple of sports schemes were also shown through slides in the meeting.
Addressing the meeting, Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Muzaffar Khan Sial said that new sports schemes will be launched in 91 such provincial constituencies in different districts of the province (where there is no sports facility is available) in the next Annual Development Programme (ADP). “A total of 19 sports schemes will be launched in Lahore, 14 in DG Khan, 13 in Gujranwala, 10 in Faisalabad, 9 in Multan, 6 in Rawalpindi, 5 in Sahiwal and 4 in Sargodha”.
Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Muzaffar Khan Sial directed the divisional sports officers to build a maximum number of shops and markets in new sports schemes under the self-sustainable model. “All the divisional sports officers should visit the sites of sports schemes to assess the possibilities of revenue generation from these sports venues”.
Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Muzaffar Khan Sial issued instructions to all DSOs to ensure the fact that the venue of new sports schemes should be cleared from all kinds of dispute or controversy and above all accessible to athletes of that particular area. “There should be maximum sports facilities for male and female athletes such as jogging tack, sports courts, open and indoor gymnasiums, cricket, football and hockey grounds etc in the new sports schemes”.
Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Muzaffar Khan Sial further informed that 113 sports schemes will be rehabilitated in different districts of the province. “Punjab Sports Department is taking all possible measures for player development besides promoting healthy trends among the young generation”.
Director General Sports Punjab Pervez Iqbal said that after completion these sports schemes will help a lot in providing maximum playing opportunities to talented male and female athletes of the province. “These sports projects are being built and rehabilitated in the province in accordance with the vision of Punjab CM Maryam Nawaz,” he added.
Director General Sports Punjab Pervez Iqbal said that the promotion of sports culture among the younger generation and welfare of the sports community of the province is our prime objective. “The separate indoor gymnasiums will be built in new sports schemes for female athletes”.