Cabinet Minister Bains awarded winning team with Rs 1.25 lakh & runner-up with Rs 75 thousand
Punjab Newsline, Rupnagar/ Chandigarh, November 24-
To adopt a healthy lifestyle, youth should include sports in their daily lifestyle and to achieve this objective, the Hawks Club has been playing an important role for nearly 50 years.
These words were expressed by Cabinet Minister Punjab Harjot Singh Bains while attending the 32nd Dashmesh Hawks All India Hockey Festival as chief guest at Hawks Stadium Rupnagar. On this occasion, he awarded Rs. 1.25 lakh to the winning hockey team of BSF and Rs. 75 thousand to the runner-up team of CRPF.
Bains said that S.S.Saini General Secretary, Hawks Club has done commendable efforts to organize a national level hockey tournament in this ground.
Sharing information about the playgrounds to promote sports in Rupnagar district, he said that a hockey astroturf ground is being constructed at Adarsh School Lodhipur at a cost of Rs. 2.5 crore, a national level shooting range is being built at Sri Anandpur Sahib, an astroturf ground for football is being built at Kiratpur Sahib. Similarly, a full length indoor swimming pool is being built at Nangal and a modern swimming pool is being built at Rupnagar.