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Brig A S Nasir, Advisor to Administrator KMC, who was the Event Director of the festival, was satisfied with the week-long event, the first of its kind to be organized exclusively for the girl students of the metropolis.
The participation of well over one thousand young female athletes in the recently held Inter-District Girls Sports Festival, organized by the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC), served the purpose of engaging the youth in healthy activities.
“No doubt it could have been better. Yet it’s heartening to have made a start. There are quite a positives to be derived from this festival and we will make it count in future,” he remarked in an interview.
“We managed to provide PT shoes to 200 students while as many participants were awarded track suits. The idea was to facilitate and encourage them. Bringing smiles on the faces of the girls was an accomplishment of sorts,” Brig Nasir reckoned.
“It’s indeed a tragedy that the majority of the girls students in our schools don’t have the access to proper sporting facilities. A lot has to be done in this direction. This initiative of ours was intended to be a a stepping stone towards reviving sports culture in the society,” he felt.
He acknowledged the unstinted support of Rauf Akhtar Farooqui, Administrator, KMC, in making the festival possible despite the resource constraints.
“The sports festival was a part of the drive undertaken by the KMC Administrator to mobilize the educational institutions being run by the metropolitan corporation. He is eager to make things happen for the betterment of education,” Brig Nasir complimented.
Competitions were held in athletics, badminton, cricket, football, karate, netball, swimming, tennis and table tennis in the KMC Inter-District Girls Sports Festival.
Besides the schools being run by the KMC, the various events were also contested by the students of the private schools of the city and there was participation of institutions like The American School, Habib Public School, Aga Khan School and Beaconhouse School System.
The Pakistan Sports Board’s Karachi Centre, famously known as the National Sports Training and Coaching Centre (NSTCC), played host to the majority of the events while Women Sports Complex, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, KMC Sports Complex, Kashmir Road, and TMC Ground, Gulberg were also used as the venues.
The KMC Administrator, Rauf Akhtar Farooqui, and his Advisor, Brig S A Nasir, were showered with praise for having fulfilled their promise of holding the festival according to the original plan despite the odds being stacked heavily against them.
Meanwhile the KMC Administrator remarked that the Peshawar tragedy left deep effects on children’s minds and by holding the sports festival they tried to help these children come out of this shock and be prepared to attend their routine works besides taking part in educational as well as extracurricular activities.
“The KMC Inter-District Girls Sports Festival will pave the way for more positive and healthy activities in educational institutions and specially the girls would participate with even better spirit in the educational and sports activities,” he said during his speech in the closing ceremony at the Pakistan Sports Board’s Karachi Centre.
Rauf Akhtar Farooqui did not mince words in stating that such festivals go a long way in unfolding the talent of the students. He urged the teachers to pay special attention on their work and bring further improvement in the standard of KMC-run schools.
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