A sports body comprising veteran and active sports persons, social activists, media persons, lawyers, prominent citizens was constituted at Ganderbal on Friday.
Different committees were formed and were assigned different roles to effectively work for the upliftment of the sports infrastructure in the district. Prominent sportsperson Sheikh Muhammad Shafi was unanimously elected as the president, Abdul Ahad Shah as general secretary and Dr Parvaiz Reshi as publicity secretary.
Other office bearers including Sheikh Rubani, Dr Sajad Bhat, Dr Aijaz Qureshi, Nisar Bhat, Fayaz Alam, Ayaz Sofi, Advocate Abid Jeelani, Idrees Ali and others were also nominated to serve as the interim executive body of the association.