Director General Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Khizar Afzaal Chaudhry said that the prime objective of Punjab Sports Department is to promote sports culture across the province. All sports officers of the province should play their due role for the development of sports in their respective areas. He expressed these views while chairing an important meeting at the National Hockey Stadium on Friday.
Divisional Sports Officer Lahore Tanveer Shah and Divisional Sports Officer Gujranwala Faisal Ameer attended the meeting in person while rest of the Divisional and District Sports Officers of the province participated in the meeting through video link.
Addressing the meeting, Director General Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Khizar Afzaal Chaudhry directed the sports officers to auction the old materials and provide details of auctioned shops in all divisions of the province. “The shops are also being constructed with sports facilities in all the divisions of the province to increase the revenue of sports department”.
Director General Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Khizar Afzaal Chaudhry has directed the sports officers to make fresh rent agreements with the shopkeepers who are occupying the shops for many years.
The renewal of rent agreement of shops with sports facilities and restoration of old sports schemes of the province were also reviewed in the meeting. All divisional and district sports officers of the province briefed the meeting about the sports facilities in their respective areas.