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SAMBA: Stressing the need for promoting sports culture among youth, Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Choudhary Zulfkar Ali on Wednesday said besides good education, promotion of sports is must for overall development of an individual.
The minister said this at the concluding function of 10-day coaching camp organised by Jammu and Kashmir State Sports Council (JKSCC) under Khelo India Competition at district Samba. Highlighting the importance of sports, Zulfkar said the promotion of sports culture helps in an overall development of an individual, and present government is committed for its promotion in the State.
He said that people especially youth instead of wasting their energies on wrongful activities like stone pelting, and drug menace, could use the same for bringing laurels for themselves as well as for the State.
Quoting an example from Punjab, the minister said that neighbouring state is losing its youth to drug menace, and to prevent such things from going viral promotion of sports culture is must.
He said J and K Government would continue to ensure various sports related initiatives are taken so that the youth here instead of resorting to drug menace would spend their time in various sports activities. Congratulating the participants for taking part in the programme, the minister said gone are the days when only people with academic brilliance were seen as successful.
Later, the minister along with people present in the function was enthralled by a demonstration of Wushu game done by youngsters trained in the camp. At the end, the minister also distributed cash award of Rs 500, and Khelo India T-Shirts among the participants.
Similar kinds of camps are being organised by J and K SSC across the State, and the initiative is funded by State Sports Authority of India (SAI).
FCS and CA G S Chib, Joint Controller, Jammu, Legal Metrology Department, V S Sambyal, Chief Sports Officer, J and K SSC Abdul Qayoom, In Charge, Sports Authority of India (SAI) Virender Sharma, Sat Pal Sharma, and other sports personalities were present in the function.
