Director General Sports Punjab Pervez Iqbal presided over an important meeting to review the ongoing Summer Sports Camps 2024 at National Hockey Stadium on Friday.
Director Admin M Kaleem, Director Sports Yasmeen Akhtar, Director Youth Affairs Rana Nadeem Anjum and Deputy Director Chand Parveen attended the key meeting in person while all the Divisional Sports Officers of the province participated in the meeting through video link.
All the divisional sports officers briefed the meeting about the Summer Sports Camp activities in their respective divisions. Director General Sports Punjab Pervez Iqbal directed the divisional sports officers to increase their efficiency in regard to Summer Sports Camp activities.
Addressing the meeting, Director General Sports Punjab Pervez Iqbal informed that a total of 1,710 male and female students of 5 to 16 years age are getting training in Summer Sports Camp in all divisions of the province. “As many as 838 children are being trained in 12 games in Lahore’s Summer Sports Camps at different venues of Nishtar Park Sports Complex”.
Director General Sports Punjab Pervez Iqbal said that the performance and coaching methods of coaches relating to training of children in the Summer Sports Camps are being monitored minutely. “Sports Board Punjab will select the best performing and highly talented children of Summer Sports Camp and then they will be further nurtured in a training camp to be organised in Lahore”.
Director General Sports Punjab Pervez Iqbal further said that the certificates will be given to the participating children at the end of the Summer Sports Camp. “We are quite hopeful that this summer camp will play an important role in the development of sports culture among the younger generation of the province,” DG Sports Punjab opined.
Director General Sports Punjab Pervez Iqbal informed that a performa will be given to all coaches, trainers and sports officers at the end of the Summer Sports Camp to get their feedback and evaluate the proceedings of summer camp. “Sports Board Punjab has also provided sports bibs to all the participating children,” he informed.