Sports Department and Directorate of Sports and Youth Affairs, Punjab arrange grand Webinar on Olympic Day - Press Note issued by Sports Board Punjab.

Lahore -- June 25, 2020 (PPI-OT)

Following is the text of press note issued by Sports Board Punjab

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Sports Department and Directorate of Sports and Youth Affairs, Punjab celebrated the Olympic Day by arranging a grand Webinar on the topic of 'Olympism and Role of Sports Department in the promotion of Sports in Punjab' on June 23, 2020, Tuesday.

Secretary Youth Affairs, Sports, Archaeology and Tourism Punjab Ehsan Bhutta, Secretary Pakistan Olympic Association Khalid Mehmood, President Punjab Olympics Association Amir Jan, President Pakistan Rugby Federation Arif Saeed, Director Admin Javed Chohan, Director Sports Hafeez Bhatti, Olympian swimmer Miss Kiran Khan), top medal-winning wrestler Inam Butt, all DSOs and TSOs participated in the largely attended Webinar. POA Project Coordinator Miss Adda Jaffery was the moderator at the webinar.

All participants gave good suggestions for improving Sports infrastructure, sponsorship, capacity building, better coordination between Sports Department and associations/federations. They also lauded the endeavours of Sports Department and Directorate of Sports and Youth Affairs, Punjab for organising the webinar on this occasion.

Secretary Youth Affairs, Sports, Archaeology and Tourism Punjab Ehsan Bhutta welcomed all the participants and highlighted the efforts of Sports Department and Directorate in promotion of sports across the Punjab province. He assured Pakistan and Punjab Olympic Associations of all-out support for promotion of sports in the country.

Secretary Youth Affairs, Sports Punjab Ehsan Bhutta said Pakistan athletes have won several medals in Asian and South Asian Games level but we need to do extra hard work to clinch medals in Olympic Games. "For this purpose we are ready to collaborate with Pakistan and Punjab Olympic Associations, sports federations and associations.

He said: "We organized Kabbadi World Cup, Punjab Games and several other events quite successfully in the past but unfortunately Covid-19 thwarted our progress. Pakistan has a respectable status in world sports and our all stakeholders need to put up collective efforts for the growth of true sports culture in the country".

Secretary Youth Affairs, Sports Punjab Ehsan Bhutta said: "We believe in continuous hard work for success that's why even in the present scenario of Covid-19 we did not let our officers free and engaged them in Online Training Programme".

Addressing the webinar President Punjab Olympic Association...