Felicitates Pattan football tourney participants
SRINAGAR,
OCT 14: Minister
for Information Technology, Technical Education, Youth Services and Sports,
Imran Raza Ansari today inaugurated restored 100 KV solar power plant and Girls
hostel block at Government Polytechnic College, Bemina and also laid the
foundation stone of residential quarters for the College faculty there.
The
Minister also inaugurated workshop-cum-classroom block there and released the
College’s first annual magazine ‘The Sparkle’.
It
was said that the hostel can accommodate 150 students, besides the College
administration has restored several other infrastructural works that got
damaged in 2014-floods including computer labs as well.
On
the occasion, the Minister inspected hostel rooms to get first-hand appraisal
of the facilities being provided to the students there.
The
Minister also passed directions to the concerned to ensure basic amenities to
the students and also make arrangements for safe drinking water, free Wi-Fi
facility, and heating arrangements at the hostel.
He
also asked the concerned to develop volleyball and basketball courts and table
tennis and other sports amenities at the College. He also stressed on college
administration to provide necessary coaching to the students in their selected
sports field.
Taking
review of the transport facility being provided to the students, the Minister
said that two buses will be provided for safe travel of female students.
The
Minister was accompanied by the Director Sports, Director Technical Education,
Secretary State Board of Technical Education and other concerned.
Later,
Ansari visited Wussan Pattan and felicitated football tournament participant
teams with cash reward of Rs 50,000 and Rs 25,000 for winning and runner-up teams respectively.
DC
Baramulla, Dr Nasir Ahmad Naqash, SSP Baramulla, Director Sports, Sheikh Fayaz
Ahmad, Joint Director Sports, Planning, Football Association President, Zameer
Thakur and other officers were present on the occasion.
The
tournament, a first of its kind in the area, was organized by the Minister
with an aim to promote games and unearth talents from the remote parts of the
area.
Speaking
on the occasion, the Minister said that such activities will help in bringing
out local talents who can be groomed for representing the State at the national
and international level.
He
directed officers to identify land for construction of playfields in the area
in order to promote sports culture in the area. He asked the concerned that the
outer boundaries of the playfield at Wussan be fenced.
He
reiterated Government’s
commitment to provide better sports facilities to the youth in general and
sports aspirants in particular.
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