Provincial Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar has chaired an important meeting regarding various significant sports matters at National Hockey Stadium on Wednesday.
Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Muzaffar Khan Sial, Director General Sports Punjab Khizar Afzaal Chaudhry, Additional Secretary Sports Mian Usman Ali, Director Admin Dr M Kaleem, Deputy Directors Zahoor Ahmed and Ata ur Rehman also attended the meeting. Important decisions were also made about new posts and vehicles for officers in the meeting.
Addressing the meeting, Provincial Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar said that along with constructing 52 new stadiums, food streets and shops will be built around existing stadiums to increase revenue. “Several shops will also be built around the stadiums in Nishtar Park Sports Complex to generate revenue”.
Provincial Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar further said that effective measures will also be taken to increase the budget of Sports Board Punjab. “The amendments are being made in Sports Board Punjab constitution for bringing improvement in sports structure of the province,” he informed.
Provincial Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar further said that a monitoring cell will also be established to check the progress of sports and revenue. “Deputy Director Monitoring Cell, two assistant directors and monitoring officers will be appointed in all divisions of the province”.
Provincial Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar informed that two committees have been formed to check the current situation of revenue in all the stadiums of Punjab province. “Complaint Management System and a Central Online System will be introduced for the checking the booking of grounds, revenue and other matters”.
Provincial Minister for Sports Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar said that key reforms are being made in Sports Board Punjab. “Divisional Sports Committees will be formed in Punjab. 6,000 graduates will be given Rs 25 thousand per month under the CM Punjab Internship Program”.