Massive sports development underway in Gulshan Iqbal

KARACHI - Gulshan-e-Iqbal town administration has conducted massive sports development work in the area to facilitate the inhabitants and also planned that Austroturf to be laid in two grounds of the town, The Nation observed during a visit of newsmen along with the Gulshan-e-Iqbal town administration here on Sunday.

So far the Gulshan-e-Iqbal town administration had developed 12 sports grounds with different kinds of sports facilities in various UCs, said Town Nazim Wasay Jalil.

He said that the two Austroturf had been finally proposed in which PC-1 for one turf had also been approved which would be laid at Olympian Iftikhar Syed Hockey ground, where a coaching camp for U-12 hockey players had already been established.

Alongside the hockey ground and a basketball court have also been established for girls and more than 160-basketball girl players daily practice here.

Jalil said: “Involvement of the community of the said UC is very vital that sports development work has been carried out in their vicinity. After the development work the citizens themselves will bear all the expenditures in maintaining the grounds and do not depend on the town administration.”

He said that the hockey ground and Kokan sports ground in Kokan Society were the examples where the residents of the area maintaining the grounds and bearing all the expenditures, which was a good sign that community was participating, owning and caring the development work which was never ever happened in our society before.