Bureau Report
LAHORE : CM Punjab Youth Games would be organised every year to provide a regular platform to young talented athletes to demonstrate their sports skills in a befitting manner. DG Sports Punjab M Tariq Qureshi shared this information while chairing a meeting at the National Hockey Stadium on Tuesday.
President Pakistan Educational Council and former education minister Mian Imran Masood, Director Admin Abid Shaukat, Deputy Director Zahoor Ahmed and representatives from more than 100 schools and colleges from across Punjab participated in the meeting.
The meeting reviewed the registration process in private educational institutions and discussed measures to encourage greater participation of students in the CM Punjab Youth Games. Issues faced by private institutions in completing registrations were also resolved in the meeting.
Addressing the meeting, DG Sports Punjab Tariq Qureshi said that more than 3.8 million registrations have been completed for the CM Punjab Youth Games. “CM Punjab Youth Games are the biggest event in the history of sports in the province and cash prizes worth Rs500 million would be distributed among the top performing athletes”.
He further said that the victorious athletes of CM Punjab Youth Games would be included in the Punjab Sports Endowment Fund Programme to provide them with further financial support and opportunities to pursue their sporting careers. “The competitions would be organised in six sports at the secondary-school level, 14 at the college level and 21 at the university level during CM Youth Games”.
