Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024

Goal: to create a sports culture in Punjab and build a structure for sportsmen at the village level as per New Sports Policy: Punjab

Sports Nurseries: 260 in 1st phase within 2024-25, Total 1000 planned^[1]
-- A Sports Nursery is being built in every 4-5 km radius^[1:1]
-- Dedicated to 1 sport with dedicated Coaching staff

Sports grounds: 2,461 have been created and work on 1,623 grounds is underway^[2]
-- Open Sports facility

¶ Details^[1:2]

Area where a particular sport is more popular, the nursery of the same sport is being set up

• The department has data about which sport is more popular in which area from Punjab's annual Sports Event (Khedan Watan Punjab Diyan) participation
• Initially 205 nurseries were in 1st phase but after strong public demand and several players, it is increased to 260

¶ Coaches hiring^[1:3]

Applications already invited for 260 coaches and 26 supervisors of 260 Sports Nurseries by 10 March 2024

REFERENCES:

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1. https://www.babushahi.com/full-news.php?id=179978 ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

2. https://www.babushahi.com/full-news.php?id=196853 ↩︎