Underscoring the need to develop sports infrastructure in the Kashmir, National Conference leader Farooq Ahmad Shah Monday said that modern sports infrastructure would help in exploring the immense potential of the local youth.
He said the time has come when youth are seriously thinkingof taking sports as ‘carrier option’. While inaugurating a cricket tournamentat Ogmana, Tangmareg, Shah said that the youth possessed a huge sporting talentwhich needed to be channelized in a proper way.
He said that more recently, many youth including ParveezRasool and Manzor Pandav have brought pride to the valley by dragging worldattention towards their sporting talent which not only brought them into theelite club of cricketers in the country but also brought fame to the valley aswell.
He said the emergence of these youth at international sportsspectrum would help others take the sports as a carrier option in the state. Hehowever, said the lack of facilities was playing spoil sport exploring theTalent of the youth. Farooq Shah however, promised that if National Conferencecame to power, the development of sports infrastructure would be one of thepriorities in the Tangmarg constituency. He appreciated the Tangmarg youth forconducting tournaments and said such events would bring their sporting talentto limelight which would be the key to their talent getting exposed to outsideworld.
Meanwhile the Ougmuna Premier League tournament would be played on knock out basis between 34 teams of the Tangmarg area.
RNA