Butt said converting ponds into playgrounds would provide basic facilities to the youths for promotion of sports. PHOTO:FILE
The Punjab government will convert all water ponds across the Punjab into playgrounds, MPA Manshaullah Butt said on Sunday.
Butt was addressing a special prize distribution ceremony at the Government Murray College, Sialkot, for positions holders in the Punjab Youth Festival. Butt said converting ponds into playgrounds would provide basic facilities to the youths for promotion of sports.DCO Iftikhar Ali Sahu and Government Murray College Principal Javaid Akhtar Billah were also present.
Butt also said that the chief minister had released a special development fund of Rs235 million to establish advanced science laboratories and to upgrade different government schools in Sialkot , Narowal, Gujrat, Mandi Bahauddin , Hafizabad and Gujranwala districts. Of this, he said, Rs53 million has been released for Sialkot district, Rs47.7 million for Gujranwala district, Rs19.5 million for Hafizabad district, Rs52.2 million for Gujrat district, Rs32 million for Narowal district and Rs39.6 million for Mandi Bahauddin.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 10th, 2014.
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Every village has two to three ponds; each pond is spread over an area of 18 to 30 kanals. This an enough space for building play grounds for girls and boys separately.
Turning village ponds into play grounds is an excellent project. In Mandi Bahauddin district land Mafia members have encroached upon ponds in complicity or connivance of local administration. Despite repeated requests in writing the land of ponds have not been vacated. Residents demand the project of developing ponds into play grounds should be immediately started to save the remaining ponds from illegal occupation by land Mafia. .Well done Mansha Butt. Go ahead and implement this scheme.