India will shine this year’s Asian Games: Anurag Thakur

PATIALA: Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports and Information & Broadcasting Anurag Thakur was on a tour of Punjab on Monday. After distributing appointment letters to the youth at the job fair in Chandigarh in the morning, the Union Minister inaugurated several sports development projects at the Netaji Subhash National Institute of Sports, Patiala, built at a cost of Rs 13 crore. During this, Thakur also interacted with the players going to participate in the upcoming Hangzhou Asian Games.

The Union Minister said, “During the tenure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, NSNIS Patiala has received crores of rupees for sports development in the last 1 year. Development projects worth Rs 13 crores have been inaugurated today. Development works worth Rs 36 crores are currently underway and Rs 24 crore more is going to be granted soon. Today we have inaugurated a training centre and a big hall for weightlifting, guest house renovation, renovation of accommodation for foreign coaches and renova-tion of 66 rooms of youth hostel, etc.” After the program, Sports Minister met athletes, coaches and dis-cussed specially on the preparations for the upcoming Asian Games. Hoping for India’s best ever-performance in the upcoming Asian Games, Anurag Thakur said, “For the past few years, India has done exceptionally well in all sports. I have full faith that India will do exceptionally well in the medal tally in the upcoming Asian Games also.” (ANI)

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