Neighbourhood/Village level: Fifth Day

Lahore, August 30, 2012 (PPI-OT): On the fifth day of the Neighbourhood and Village level of the Punjab Youth and Sports Festival on Thursday interest of people from all walks of life has increased tremendously, with final stages of the first phase approaching competitions are getting challenging .

The competitions among different Sports and Youth Development Councils of various Union Councils in nine towns are entering in interesting phase and in some towns competitions have entered into pre-quarters stage and in certain places they are in last eight-stage. Yesterday, 1411 youngsters showed their skills in all the seven sporting and two general events of the Neighbourhood and Village level of the Festival in the city alone.

The nine towns of the provincial capital including Shalimar, Wagha, Aziz Bhatti, Gulberg, Nashtar, Iqbal, Ravi, Samanabad and Data Ganj Bukhsh had 183 blocks and localities of 17 UCs competitions in 41 events. Out of these nine towns, Shalimar and Ravi towns competed in all the nine event s while the other seven got involved in sports affairs.

Mian Naseer Ahmed, MNA and Convener Town Sports and Youth Development Council was the chief guest of the opening ceremony of the two UC’s of Aziz Bhatti Town. The competitions of these UCs were conducted at Bara Dari Cricket Ground near Hazarat Mian Meer Darbar Dharampura.

From among some of the competitions results collected from the city, UC 92 saw Usman Asif, Bilal Rasheed, Hashim Shakeel, Seeshan Asad win their badminton matches. In UC 9, 10, 21, 22, 42 and 48 contests on billiard, athletics, cricket and arm wrestling were held. **** The youngsters of Block 4 D, 2 D, 3D, I D of UC 138 were the winner of the tug competition against their second string of the same block in tug of war.

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