Punjab Youth Affairs and Sports Department, on the directions of Director General Sports Punjab Pervez Iqbal, organized an exciting speech competition at SBP E-Library in connection with 77th Independence Day of the country.
Director Youth Affairs Rana Nadeem Anjum supervised the proceedings of Urdu and English speech competitions in which hundreds of students from different schools and colleges participated with keen interest.
Director Youth Affairs Rana Nadeem Anjum distributed prizes among the top position holders. Deputy Director Ata ur Rehman, Ammar Afzal and Librarian Shazia Saqlain were also present on this occasion.
All the speakers from different schools and colleges highlighted multiple aspects and challenges of freedom movement in their comprehensive speeches. They also discussed various modern day challenges and urged the youth of the country to play an effective role for the development of the beloved country.
In Independence Day Urdu school speech competition, M Hassamul Qayyum, Arbab Sakeena and Eshal Maqsood clinched the top three positions while Syeda Haniya Rizwi, Syed M Taqi Zaidi and Tasmia Kashaf were the top three position holders in English school speech contest.
M Tayyab Yar was adjudged triumphant of the Urdu college speech contest while the next two positions were taken by Syed Ali Hassan Jaffery and Subhan Anjum Khan respectively.
In the Independence Day English college speech competition, Ali Rasheed, Hadiya Noor and Mehkash Gillani impressed the audience and the jury members with their brilliant speeches and grabbed the top three positions respectively.
The jury of speech competition was consisted of experts such as M Haris Ashfaq, Nabiha Khan, Abdul Rehman Basra, Aqsa Javed and Syed Kamal Ahmed. The jury members heard all the speeches attentively and decided the position holders purely on merit.
The top three position holders in all four categories of speech competition were awarded cash prizes of Rs 10,000, Rs 7,500 and Rs 5,000 respectively.
Director General Sports Punjab Pervez Iqbal in a statement said that this kind of competitions played a vital role in nurturing the talent of young students. “Punjab Youth Affairs and Sports Department designed a comprehensive programme to engage talented male and female youngsters of the province in a number of sports and other competitions on Independence Day”.
Director General Sports Punjab Pervez Iqbal said that besides the academic schedules, the organization of extra-curriculum activities is necessary for developing multiple skills among the talented youth of the province. “Punjab Youth Affairs and Sports Department will continue to organize such healthy extra-curriculum competitions in future as well,” he maintained.
Director General Sports Punjab Pervez Iqbal further said that apart from speech contest Punjab Youth Affairs and Sports Department conducted several programmes including calligraphy and debate competitions at SBP E-Library to celebrate Independence Day in an appropriate manner. “The calligraphy competition was organized at the topic of ‘Azad Pakistan’ on August 12 while university level students participated in a debate competition on the topic of ‘The Role of Youth in National Development’ on August 13”.