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Meet Hayer releases Sports University’s New Year Calendar

Wall and Table Calendar highlights sports activities achievements of Punjab

Punjab’s award successful gamers are a part of the calendar: Meet Hayer

Babushahi Bureau 

Chandigarh, December 31, 2023: Punjab Sports Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer as we speak launched the New Year calendar on the eve of the New Year, highlighting the sporting achievements of Punjab. This calendar has been ready by Maharaja Bhupinder Singh Punjab Sports University, Patiala by which all of the award successful sportspersons of Punjab have been included. Two calendars have been ready, one wall calendar and the opposite desk calendar. 

These calendars had been launched within the presence of Special Chief Secretary Saravjit Singh and Punjab Sports University Vice Chancellor Lt General (Retd) J.S. Cheema.

Congratulating all of the Punjabis and the sportspersons on New Year, the Sports Minister stated that Punjab has a wealthy sports activities heritage and Punjabi gamers have made the mark with their sporting prowess all around the World. The State Government below the management of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann is making steady efforts to revive the state’s misplaced glory in sports activities. In the very first yr of the brand new sports activities coverage, the Punjabi gamers whereas breaking a 72-year-old file of Asian Games, received a complete of 20 medals, together with 8 gold medals.

Meet Hayer stated that to date the gamers of Punjab have received 4 Padma Bhushan, 24 Padma Shri, 4 Khel Ratna Puraskar, 129 Arjuna Awards, 15 Dronacharya Awards, 21 Dhyan Chand Awards and 5 Tenzing Norgay Awards. All 202 Awardees have been included within the calendar.

Divulging extra particulars Lt. Gen. (retd.) J.S. Cheema stated that the distinctive side of the calendar is that the month of March, which is International Women’s Day, consists of all of the award-winning Women gamers, and the month of May, which is World Athletics Day, consists of all of the Award winners of Athletics. There are many award-winning sportsmen in a household like father-son, brothers, husband-wife, uncle-nephew and so on. All these have been given a particular place within the calendar.