Helping flood victims, a priority for sports enthusiasts

Sports promoters and enthusiasts in the region extended help to flood victims in their respective areas, besides sending ration and cattle feed to severely affected areas.

Funds for supporting flood victims would be arranged by cancelling or staggering sports fairs and tournaments scheduled to be held in the coming months, they said.

Having declared to stop the preparations for forthcoming events the enthusiasts have started visiting flood-hit areas along the border.

Appreciating gesture shown by some sports clubs and youth clubs of the region, advocate Maavi and Shiv Kumar Narad, president and patron of the Ahmedgarh Sports and Social Welfare Association, claimed that some NRIs sports promoters had also showed their inclination to appropriate their contributions towards helping flood victims, including farmers, artisans and small traders.

Former sarpanch Rupinder Singh Pindu of Kanganwal Sports Association said the annual sports fair, scheduled to be held on January 26, had been cancelled and separate teams of activists had started visiting severely affected areas to finalise a menu of materials to be distributed across several flood-hit areas.

Sukdeep Singh of Dhaler village informed said an annual tournaments scheduled to be held by the Shaheed Udham Singh Sports and Welfare Club on February 26 had also been cancelled, keeping in view the priority of help required for flood victims of the region and of severely hit border areas.