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Punjab Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar inaugurates Modern Contact Body Sports Centre
Modern Contact Body Sports Centre has been completed with the cost of Rs 72 million in a short span of time: Punjab Minister for Sports Affairs Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar
LAHORE (May 9, 2024): Nawaz Gohar
Punjab Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar cut a ribbon to inaugurate Modern Contact Body Sports Centre at Nishtar Park Sports Complex on Thursday.
Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Muzaffar Khan Sial, Director General Sports Punjab Pervez Iqbal, Director Sports Yasmeen Akhtar, Project Director PMU Qaiser Raza, Deputy Director Zahoor Ahmed and other officials were also present on this occasion.
Talking to media on this occasion, Punjab Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar said that the Modern Contact Body Sports Centre has been completed with the cost of Rs 72 million in a short span of time. “The games of boxing, judo, karate, wushu and ju-jitsu etc can be organised at Contact Body Sports Center”.
Elaborating more sports projects, Punjab Minister for Sports Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar said that Sports Board Punjab is going to build 91 outdoor sports complexes across the province in just one year. “The state-of-the-art squash complex, which has been stalled for two decades, will be completed with a cost of Rs 80 crores in one year,” he added.
Punjab Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar further said that all the sports projects are being completed within the stipulated period in line with the vision of Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz. “Shehbaz Sharif in his era as Punjab Chief Minister built beautiful sports gymnasiums in several cities of the province but now these sports gymnasiums are presenting a deserted look due to negligence of past rulers. Punjab Sports Department will spend a hefty amount on the rehabilitation of these sports complexes in the Annual Development Programme (ADP).”
Answering a question, Punjab Minister for Sports Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar said that Sports Board Punjab is going to conduct Punjab Games in near future and in this regard the registration process of 16 games will begin soon. “A large number of 10 lakh youth will be engaged in these games”.
Punjab Minister for Sports Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar said that in a major development, a committee has been formed to take expert advice from sports stalwarts and other relevant quarters before building a new sports complex anywhere in the Punjab province.
Punjab Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar said that the Punjab Sports Department organized the First Chief Minister Pink Games quite successfully. “Around 1,300 female athletes from 19 universities
participated in seven games including badminton, table tennis, archery, basketball, athletics, hockey and cricket (tape ball)”.
Director General Sports Punjab Pervez Iqbal on this occasion said that all facilities of Sports Board Punjab are for the public and anyone can organize a sports event at these state-of-the-art sports venues.