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Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, July 30

Cabinet ministers led by Local Bodies Minister Brahm Mohindra “prevailed” upon Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh during today’s Cabinet meeting to name the upcoming Punjab Sports University at Patiala as Maharaja Bhupinder Singh Sports and Science University.

The legislation of the university approved in today’s Cabinet meet would be tabled in the upcoming monsoon session of the Vidhan Sabha.

After Sports Minister Rana Gurmit Sodhi proposed to name the university after the Chief Minister’s grandfather, Capt Amarinder expressed reservation and suggested to table it in the upcoming session of the Vidhan Sabha. Mohindra sought permission of the Chair to take the call on naming of the university after the CM’s grandfather. Subsequently, he was joined by other ministers before the Chief Minister agreed to it.

The Chief Minister had announced the decision to set up this university in the Vidhan Sabha in his speech on June 19, 2017. Subsequently, a steering committee had been set up under the chairmanship of Olympian and Member, International Olympic Committee, Randhir Singh to finalise the modalities to establish this sports educational institute.

The university, a flagship project of the Chief Minister, is being set up to promote education in the areas of sports sciences, sports technology, sports management and sports coaching.

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