Cabinet minister Pargat Singh inaugurates sports ground Ludhiana’s Khakat village

Cabinet minister Pargat Singh inaugurated a multi-purpose sports ground, a joint initiative of Punjab Youth Development Board and Highway Industries Ltd, under corporate social responsibility

Cabinet minister Pargat Singh inaugurated a sports ground at village Khakat, near Sahnewal, on Friday.

Cabinet minister Pargat Singh inaugurating a sports ground at Khakat village near Sahnewal in Ludhiana on Friday. (HT Photo)

The sports ground will have facilities for basketball, cricket, football, badminton, kho-kho, rope climbing and a 400-m athletics track.

Punjab Youth Development Board (PYDB) chairman Sukhwinder Singh Bindra said that four more such grounds would be developed in other villages of Sahnewal area.

Cabinet minister Pargat Singh said, “This was a joint initiative of Punjab Youth Development Board and Highway Industries Ltd, under corporate social responsibility of the latter.” He also appealed other industrialists to contribute for developing such sports parks in other parts of the state.

Senior Congress leader Satwinder Kaur Bitti, District Education Officer Lakhvir Singh, besides a large number of area residents were present on the occasion.