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Chandigarh, Union Minister of State for Sports Sarbananda Sonowal today announced to set up multi-purpose sports centres in Punjab’s border districts of Ferozepur, Amritsar, Tarn Taran and Gurdaspur.
Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal asked the Union Minister, who called on the former here, to generously help the state in combating the curse of drugs by funding sports projects and related infrastructure, especially in the border districts of the state.
He apprised the Union Minister that the state government was already making strenuous efforts for promoting sports to check drug addiction in the state but this daunting task could not be accomplished without adequate support of the Union government.
An official release quoting Badal said there was a lot of scope for the promotion of the sports activity in the border districts of the state for which the Union Government must pay some attention.
Responding to the issue, Sonowal apprised the Chief Minister that the Union Government would set up a multi-purpose sports centre in each block of the border district at a cost of Rs 1.75 crore over an area of seven acres.
He asked the Chief Minister to send the requisite proposal for these centres so that work on them could be started in a phased manner. The Union Minister also assured Badal that the Union Government was not averse to the idea of setting up such centres even in the other blocks of the state
