Mann’s ambitious sports scheme: 12,500 Punjab villages to get playgrounds

“Aim is to guarantee younker are gainfully engaged successful sports, alternatively than taking to drugs,” says the CM

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann contiguous announced his ambitious strategy of gathering playgrounds successful each 12,500 villages of Punjab, to promote younker to instrumentality up sports.

In the archetypal phase, the playgrounds volition beryllium built successful 3,083 villages. The reason, said Mann, for gathering sports infrastructure astatine crushed level is to guarantee that younker are gainfully engaged successful sports, alternatively than taking to drugs.

This inaugural is the adjacent measurement successful our ‘War connected Drugs’ campaign, said Mann.

“We person to springiness them an alternate that channelises their vigor successful the close direction. Youth volition instrumentality to sports if the sports facilities are disposable and volition not autumn for drugs. At present, 3 captains of 3 large sports teams — hockey (Harmanpreet Singh), cricket (Shubhman Singh) and shot (Gurpreet Singh Sandhu) are Punjabis and they are emerging arsenic younker icons. This is my large inaugural to guarantee that younker are gainfully engaged successful productive activities,” said the Chief Minister, who besides holds the complaint of Sports Department.

He said that diversion tracks volition beryllium built, Astroturfs volition beryllium installed and national-level players volition beryllium asked to manager the youth.

“These playgrounds are being built successful each villages and we mean mounting up sports nurseries for a clump of villages. The fund for these nurseries has been kept aside. These nurseries volition besides person hostels, messes and quarters for coaches. Depending connected the fashionable athletics of the area, a circumstantial athletics nursery volition beryllium built,” Mann added.

The Chief Minister further said that though astir colony Panchayats person offered the authorities their ain onshore for making playgrounds, successful galore villages, NRIs, too, person travel guardant to connection onshore for escaped for the purpose.