Director General Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Khizar Afzaal Chaudhry has presided over an important meeting at the National Hockey Stadium on Friday.
Director Admin Dr M Kaleem, Director Sports Yasmeen Akhtar, Deputy Director Ata ur Rehman, Deputy Director Tariq Khanzada attended the meeting in person while all the divisional and district sports officers of the province participated in the meeting through video link.
The performances of all district sports officers in the first phase of Khelta Punjab Games were reviewed in detail during the meeting. Besides this, the revenue generation process in all districts and divisions of the province was also discussed in the meeting.
Addressing the meeting, Director General Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Khizar Afzaal Chaudhry said that the arrangements are completed to organize the indoor trials of Sports Board Punjab teams for Inter-Provincial Quaid-i-Azam Games. “The U-22 players from all divisions of the province will participate in the trials and the best players will be selected purely on merit for the mega event,” he added.
Director General Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Khizar Afzaal Chaudhry congratulated those District Sports Officers who showed excellent performance in the first phase of Khelta Punjab Games. “Show-cause notices will be issued to those officers who failed to impress in Khelta Punjab Games,” DG Sports Punjab warned.
Director General Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Khizar Afzaal Chaudhry informed that the district level competitions of Khelta Punjab Games have been completed while the divisional level competitions will be organized with the permission of Punjab government.
Director General Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Khizar Afzaal Chaudhry directed all the district and divisional sports officers of Punjab to take all possible measures to increase the revenue in their respective districts and divisions. “All sports officers of the province should improve their performance and take effective steps for the promotion of sports culture across the province,” he added.
Director General Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Khizar Afzaal Chaudhry said that Sports Board Punjab will be organizing DSOs conference in every month in future. “Punjab Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar will chair this conference in a bid to improve performance of all District Sports Officers of the province,” he informed.