Jammu, March 10, (Scoop News)- The Minister for Youth Services and Sports, Imran Raza Ansari, Tuesday appreciated the Jammu and Kashmir Police for playing an important role in promoting sports and honing talent of sports persons of the State. He said that performance of Jammu and Kashmir Police in sports has remained much encouraging at national and international level, helping in a great way to inspire the youth towards such activities.
The Minister was speaking while inaugurating 5-day All India Police Martyrs Memorial Hockey Tournament at K.K. Hakhu Stadium here today.
Minister for Industries and Commerce, Chander Prakash Ganga, Minister for Revenue, Javaid Mustafa Mir were also present on the occasion.
Ansari said that such events are of paramount importance for promotion of sports culture in the State and JKP has shown great interest in sports arena, besides professional duties.
Ansari lauded the role of JKP in preserving the sovereignty and integrity of the nation. He said that JKP has always been on forefront to safeguard the life and property of the people and they have made supreme sacrifices while restoring peace and prosperity in the State. He said that the government would be very liberal in providing support to JKP in terms of infrastructural development and other requirements for augmenting sports and its infrastructure. The Minister on the occasion announced enhancement in winning prize from Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 Lakh.
Earlier, the Director General of Police (DGP), K. Rajendra Kumar deliberated on the objectives of organizing the national level event and said that the championship is aimed to remember the sacrifices of police martyrs who laid down their precious lives for a noble cause of nation’s service in different parts of the country. He said that JKP has a long history of public service and sacrifices. “Our jawans and officers made supreme sacrifices for peace and stability in the State and the Organization will never forget its martyrs”, he said.
The DGP disclosed that JKP, besides its professional duty has been focussing on various sports activities within and outside the Organization and the activities have been providing opportunity to sports lovers to witness national events in the State.
Inaugural match of the Tournament was played between Air Force and CRPF which was won by Air Force by 2-1 goals. Lovdeep Singh of Air Force was declared man of the match.
Among others, the inaugural ceremony was attended by ADGP (Headquarters), S. P. Vaid, DG Youth Services and Sports, Navin Aggerwal, ADGP (Armed), S. M Sahai, IsGP, AK Choudhary, HK Lohia, Deepak Kumar, SJM Geelani, MS Salaria, Yoginder Koul, MA Khan, Rajesh Kumar, Mukesh Singh, Shyam Lal, SA Watali, MA Ganai, JP Singh and other police and civil officers.
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