Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Muhammad Ali chaired an important meeting at the Punjab Stadium on Wednesday to review the procedure for outsourcing sports projects.
Director General Sports Punjab Muhammad Tariq Qureshi, Chief Financial Officer of Public Private Partnership Authority (PPPA) Asad Baloch, GM Projects Mansoor Sarwar, Additional Secretary Shabbir Hussain Cheema, Director Admin Abid Shaukat and Director Sports Chand Perveen participated in the meeting.
Officials of PPPA gave a detailed briefing about Public Private Partnership mode in the meeting. An in-depth briefing was also given about Pakistan's first sports city.
Addressing the meeting, Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Muhammad Ali said that there are 717 sports facilities in the Punjab province and Punjab Sports Department is going to outsource 101 sports projects to improve the quality of sports in Punjab. “41 padel tennis courts are going to be constructed in across Punjab province. A strategy will be devised to run padel tennis courts as per Public Private Partnership mode”.
Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Muhammad Ali said that best measures are being taken for the development of sports culture across the province. “Punjab Sports Department is going to establish sports facilities in 1000 schools of the Punjab province”.