LAHORE:The Second Sports Officers Conference was held in the Committee Room of Sports Board Punjab,
National Hockey Stadium under the Chairmanship of Secretary Youth Affairs and Sports Punjab
Ehsan Bhutta here on Tuesday.
Additional Secretary Sports Malik Sanaullah, Director Admin Syed Umair Hassan, Project Director
PMU Sports Board Punjab Mr Qaiser, DS Admin and Planning, Director Sports Chand Perveen,
Assistant Director Youth Affairs Nazish Noor were present in the key meeting.
All the divisional sports officers of Punjab, all administrators, caretakers and incharge of Nishtar
Park Complex sports facilities and other top officials attended the meeting. As many as 40 District
and Tehsil Sports Officers of the province also participated in the meeting through video link.
Progress of 20 E-Libraries, Progress of development projects, Seminars on Youth Affairs on Drug
and Electronic Addiction in all districts, Revival of sports activities in school and colleges, Sports
activities in last one month and cleanliness and management of facilities in Nishtar Park Sports
Complex were discussed in detail during the meeting. All divisional sports officers presented the
progress on above agendas.
The PD PMU has been directed to expedite progress on all development schemes. Youth Affairs
seminars progress was appreciated on this occasion. Youth Affairs Department Punjab will conduct
eight seminars at least in every district of the province.
All divisional sports officers gave a thorough briefing about the sports infrastructure, sports schemes
and events and performance in their respective divisions. They also informed Secretary Sports and
Youth Affairs Punjab Ehsan Bhutta about any delay and hurdle in their sports development projects.
After the detailed briefing, Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab issued on the spot directions
to officials and departments concerned to remove the said obstacles in the timely completion of
sports projects.
Addressing the meeting, he said that it was need of hour to work at grassroots level for true promotion
of sports culture in the province. “The basic purpose of building sports development projects at tehsil
level was to provide top class sports facilities to talented male and female athletes”, he added.
Ehsan Bhutta further said: “We are tracing potential youngsters at tehsil level through our effective
talent hunt programme so that all talented players from all far-flung areas of the province could be
given sufficient opportunities to express their talent”.
He said that Sports and Youth Affairs Department Punjab was putting up stringent endeavours for
the growth of sports trend among the younger generation. “For this purpose, we are organizing regular
sports events, holding drug awareness programmes besides inaugurating several sports academies
during the last couple of months”, he added.