Punjab Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar has chaired an important General Body meeting of Sports Board Punjab (SBP) at the National Hockey Stadium on Wednesday in which several significant decisions were made.
The meeting was attended by SBP Vice-Chairman Malik Suleman Saleem, Secretary Sports Punjab Muhammad Ali, Director General Sports Punjab Muhammad Tariq Qureshi, MPA M Ajmal Khan Chandia and President Punjab Olympic Association (PbOA) Amir Jan.
Former Olympian Shabana Akhtar, Secretary Pakistan Wrestling Federation Arshad Sattar, Secretary Punjab Swimming Association Atif Shafiq, Sports Editor Zahid Maqsood, representatives of Finance Department, Regulations, S&GAD Department, Board of Revenue and Higher and School Education were also present in the meeting.
Addressing the meeting, Punjab Minister for Sports Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar said that the game of swimming is a very popular among the younger generation and keeping in view this factor, swimming pools will be established in all divisional headquarters. He also approved to cut the swimming registration fees to half.
Punjab Minister for Sports Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar said that modern control room will be set up in the Punjab Sports Department to monitor all the sports complexes across the province through cameras. “Key Performance Indicator (KPI) system will be implemented to evaluate the performance of all sports officers of the province”.
Punjab Minister for Sports Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar said that performance will be the only gauge to evaluate the sports officers of the province. “The officers, who showed excellent performance will be rewarded and the officers with poor performance will be demoted. Punjab Sports Department is also going to start audit process in all of its divisions, districts and headquarters to ensure transparency in all the monetary affairs”.
Revealing a historic development, Punjab Minister for Sports Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar said that Punjab Sports Department will establish a University of Sports Sciences. Besides this, a Housing Colony for the employees of Punjab Sports Department was also approved in the meeting.
Punjab Minister for Sports Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar further said that Punjab Sports Department is introducing the Annual Sports Calendar, under which sports competitions will be organized at the grass-root level in each division. “In order to develop world-class sports in Punjab, in the first phase 100 sports facilities are being outsourced under Private-Public Partnership”.