Excelsior Sports Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 11: Chief Secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta here today impressed upon the officers of the Sports and Culture Department to give opportunity to each person to both take part in sporting or other cultural activities for giving their creative energies a chance and improve quality of their lives.
He made these remarks while presiding over the meeting to take stock of the preparations made for rolling out of LG’s Sports and Cultural Rolling Trophies for the employees of J&K.
The meeting was attended by Principal Secretary, Finance; Commissioner Secretary, GAD; Secretary, Tourism & Culture; Secretary, Youth Services & Sports; Director, YS&S besides other concerned officers of these Departments.
Dr Mehta emphasised on participation of 100% population in such creative activities. He made out that before 2019 the participation of people in sports across the UT was bare minimum, but today the number has crossed to more than 65 lakh in the UT.
While reviewing the rolling out of LG’s Sports and Cultural Rolling Trophies, he said that even employees need some opportunities to loosen up from their daily schedules. He asked them to even consider having a competition between Employees winning team and LG trophy winner from civil side.
Secretary, Culture, Syed Abid Rasheed Shah informed the meeting that the Department is going to organize cultural activities in art forms like singing, painting, debating, poetry, essay writing and storytelling. The participation at District, HoD, Divisional and Administrative Department level shall be ensured. The trophy would be given to the best administrative department and kept by it till next competition. He also gave out that cash awards to best performers would be given in each competition.
Secretary, Youth Services & Sports, Sarmad Hafeez informed the meeting that the competitions in 6 sporting activities of Cricket, Football, Volleyball, Table tennis and Hockey would be held at both Jammu and Srinagar. He further informed that 552 matches involving more than 1600 employees would be organised over a period of 100 days.
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