Hockey stadium to be built in BZU.

MULTAN -- The Higher Education Commission (HEC), under the Prime Minister Youth Programme, awarded a project of establishing a hockey stadium in Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU).

BZU Project Director Prof Farhan Mir, told this news agency on Tuesday that the stadium, initially having a seating capacity of 150 persons, would be constructed within one and a half years with a sum of Rs 164 million.

The project is part of the PM Youth Programme and Talent Hunt drive, an HEC initiative for varsities, he said and added that they would try their level best to get the project completed by next year within the tenure of VC Dr Kundi, who made special efforts to obtain it.

The stadium will be constructed in three phases wherein a pavilion will be built in the first phase while Astro Turf will be laid down in the second phase.

In the third phase, a resource centre for the training of players would be established in the stadium, Farhan said.

He maintained that talent hunt league was a great opportunity to search out young sportsmen from across the country.

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