The Punjab government has decided to develop the lands, lying vacant for a long time, as grounds to provide healthy recreational facilities to the youth. These grounds will be developed under the Green Sports Project so that recreational facilities could be arranged with minimum expenditures.
An important meeting was held at Civil Secretariat under the chair of Chief Secretary Azam Suleman Khan to review this project. Secretaries of Finance, Sports, Agriculture and Auqaf departments and other high officials attended the meeting.
The chief secretary was told in the briefing that government lands have been identified in 100 tehsils in the first phase. These pieces of lands, comprising of one to two acres, were situated near the local population and water channels. An amount of Rs 127.15 million will be required to develop 100 grounds situated in different tehsils of the province.
The chief secretary directed that fences should be erected around these grounds to stop their commercial utilization. The meeting decided that tehsil level committees should be set up under the chair of concerned assistant commissioners and representative of PHA, sports and other line departments, as well as elected representatives, will be included in these committees. The CS further directed that first model ground should be established at Kot Radha Kishan so that it could be replicated in other tehsils. The meeting further decided that lands would remain in the control of departments which occupied them.
