Punjab Youth Affairs and Sports Department organized a prize distribution ceremony for the top position holders of Independence Day calligraphy, speech and debate competitions at SBP E-Library on Tuesday.
Director General Sports Punjab Pervez Iqbal was the chief guest at the prize distribution ceremony. He distributed cheques among all the top position holders. He also awarded a special cash prize of Rs ten thousand to young competitor Arbab Sakeena.
Acknowledging the passion and skills of all participants in Independence Day calligraphy, speech and debate competitions, Director General Sports Punjab Pervez Iqbal, on this occasion, announced to double the cash prizes of all position holders.
Director Admin Dr M Kaleem, Director Youth Affairs Rana Nadeem Anjum, SBP officials including Farhat Ehsan, Ammar Afzal and Librarian Shazia Saqlain were also present on this occasion.
Addressing the prize distribution ceremony, Director General Sports Punjab Pervez Iqbal said that hundreds of talented male and female students from different colleges and schools participated in calligraphy, speech and debate competitions. “There is no doubt that our youth has been blessed with immense talent in multiple fields”.
Director General Sports Punjab Pervez Iqbal further said that Youth Affairs and Sports Department Punjab will continue to organize such events. “Our aim is to bring out new talent from across the province. We are planning to organize even bigger events on Defense Day on September 6,” he informed.
In Calligraphy contest, the winner Laraib Eman Ali was awarded cheques of Rs 20,000. Runner up Aysha Fatima and third position holder Samara Shahid were given cash prizes of Rs 15,000 and Rs 10,000 respectively.
In debate contest, Ali Hassan, Tehzeeb Afzal and Zainul Abedeen spoke in favour of the topic ‘The role of youth in the progress of Pakistan’ and got top three positions while while Sahil Hussain, Duriya Batool and Nalain Abbas spoke against the topic and were declared top three performers. All the top three position holders in this contest were awarded cheques of Rs 10,000, Rs 7,500 and Rs 5,000 respectively.
Independence Day Urdu school speech competition, top three position holders M Hassamul Qayyum, Arbab Sakeena and Eshal Maqsood got cheques of Rs 10,000, Rs 7,500 and Rs 5,000 respectively. Syeda Haniya Rizwi, Syed M Taqi Zaidi and Tasmia Kashaf were the top three position holders in English school speech contest and were awarded cash prizes of Rs 10,000, Rs 7,500 and Rs 5,000 respectively.
top three cash prizes of Rs 10,000, Rs 7,500 and Rs 5,000 were given to M Tayyab Yar, Syed Ali Hassan Jaffery and Subhan Anjum Khan In Urdu college speech contest.
In the Independence Day English college speech competition, Ali Rasheed, Hadiya Noor and Mehkash Gillani captured top three positions and were awarded the same amount of cheques.