In a bid to groom meritorious sportspersons who live in the rural areas of the State for the forthcoming National Games, State Sports Minister Dinesh Aggrawal convened a meeting of the officials of Sports, Youth Welfare and Education Departments at the Vidhan Sabha on Saturday. During the meeting, he categorically instructed the officials to prepare a sports annual calendar so that there is no scope any confusion.
Aggarwal also disclosed that Chief Minister Harish Rawat had sanctioned Rs 5.86 crore for the promotion of village and Nyaya Panchayat level sports persons. For this Sports department was going to organise athletics, football, Kho Kho, Kabaddi, wrestling and vollyball championship. For this he apprised officials about the Chief Minster’s wish and instructed them to sit all three department officials together and prepare a work plan for the promotion of above mentioned sports discipline.
He instructed them to prepare a sports calendar in next 15 days and make sure that sports should be organised with the coordination between the all three departments. With this the Government can provide a platform for the upcoming sportsperson and can groom them for the national games. During meeting Additional Secretary Secondary education Usha Shukla, Additional Secretary Youth Welfare RC lohani, Joint Secretary lakshman Singh, Additional Director Education BS Rawat, Deputy Director sports Ajay Aggrawal, Deputy Director Youth Welfare Shakti Singh and Under secretary secondary education BS Pundir were present there.