sports budget hike

Sangrur (Gurpreet Singh): Reaffirming the Punjab Government’s commitment to transforming the state into India’s sporting powerhouse, Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Tuesday inaugurated an Olympic-standard swimming pool built at a cost of ₹9.50 crore in Sangrur and declared that the district is poised to emerge as a nursery for Asian, World and Olympic champions. Highlighting the government’s unprecedented investment in sports infrastructure, CM Bhagwant Singh Mann said Punjab has increased the sports budget from less than ₹200 crore under previous governments to ₹1,790 crore, secured the opportunity to host the Asian Hockey Championship Trophy for the first time, and…