With an aim to engage youth in sports and wean them away from menace of drugs, Punjab Sports Department on Monday released its annual calendar including tournaments like Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh Punjab Games and hockey league.
Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal, who also holds the sports portfolio, had already approved the calendar with strict instructions to provide all facilities to the students in educational institutes to create atmosphere for healthy competition. Giving details of the sports calendar, State Sports Director Tejinder Singh Dhaliwal said that block-level rural competitions for boys and girls under-16 years would be organized in all 142 blocks in July-August 2014. District-level rural competitions would be held from August 27-29 and district-level women games from August 29-31 at district headquarters, he added. To give a fillip to rural sports, department would organize Punjab State rural games for boys under-16 at Sangrur in the third week of October and for girls in the last week of October.