President flags off National Sports and Physical Fitness Week

Commencing the National Sports and Physical Fitness Week with a view to control Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), President Maithripala Sirisena ceremonially inaugurated the sports and physical health promotion programs organised by the Ministry of Sports this morning at the Presidential Secretariat premises.

The programs are expected to create an energetic, enthusiastic and healthy nation encompassing the adolescent, young, adult and senior social levels of the society, the President’s Media Division said.

The appropriate programs are formulated by a local committee guided by National, Divisional and political leadership. The Sports and Physical Health promotion programs are operated among schools, Temples, work-sites, sports-clubs or various associations, stated the Ministry of Sports.

During the course of these initiatives, the project can be integrated into the society by physical exercise programs, drill-shows, exhibition games, awareness programs, walks and initiating infrastructure projects and Shramadana Campaigns, the Ministry added.

Minister of Sports,  Dayasiri Jayasekara, Deputy Minister, H M Harris, Secretary to the President P.B. Abeykoon, officials of the Presidential Secretariat and others participated in this inaugural ceremony.