Lahore
Punjab Minister for Sports, Youth Affairs and Tourism Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti presided over a high-profile meeting at National Hockey Stadium on Friday.
Secretary Youth Affairs, Sports, Archaeology and Tourism Ehsan Bhutta, Director General Sports Punjab Adnan Arshad Aulakh, Director Admin Javed Chohan, Deputy Director Planning Rauf Bajwa, Divisional Sports Officer Sargodha Manzer Fareed Shah and PMU officials also attended the meeting.
The meeting was convened to review sports project including Revival of Hockey (Hockey League), Inauguration of Tehsil Sports Complex at Mianwali, Revival of Sports Period in Schools, Soft Playfield (Land of BoR), Sports Policy and Establishment of Sports School in Nishtar Park Sports Complex (NPSC).
Director General Sports Punjab Adnan Arshad Aulakh briefed the meeting thoroughly about the sports projects.
Addressing the meeting, the sports minister said that hockey is our national game and we are fully collaborating with Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) for the revival of the national game. “In this regard we are planning to hold a hockey league and setting up hockey academies in different cities of the province. Our youth have plenty of hockey talent and we are making stringent measures to polish that talent. We are confident that our talented youth will help us a lot in regaining our lost hockey glory,” he added.—APP
