PESHAWAR
The Second 3-day National Off Road Jeep Rally 2022 is being held from 4th to 6th of next month in D.I.Khan. Men and women jeep racers from all over the country besides some foreign sportspersons are expected to participate in the championship. The KP govt has directed the district administration of Dera Ismail Khan to make all necessary arrangements for this purpose in addition to streamlining the departments of tourism, local govt & rural development. A meeting of the District Administration, Tourism and Local Government Departments was held at DC office DIK under the chairmanship of Faisal Amin Gandapur, Provincial Minister for Local Government and Rural Development in this regard.
The meeting took stock of all the arrangements including fixing of the routes of the rally and security measures wherein necessary decisions were made accordingly.
The meeting was attended by Deputy Commissioner Dera Ismail Khan Arif Awan, Assistant Commissioner Nawab Sameer Leghari, representatives of Tourism Department, Local Government, Police and other concerned agencies besides Off Road Challenge experts whereas all arrangements were carefully observed and finalized the schedule of the rally.
The Minister directed all the concerned authorities to use their energies to make this championship rally a success in all respects as, he said, such joint competitions and championships of tourism, culture and sports are not held again and again but take place years later. Hence endeavours should be made and energies be pooled to make it a successful and popular event.
He also directed the Local Government Department to make special arrangements for cleanliness and hygiene and potable water during the rally.
On the occasion, experts and organizers thanked Provincial Minister Faisal Amin Gandapur for honoring Dera Ismail Khan for hosting this national level off-road challenge rally and acknowledged that the Amin brothers have contributed to the development of the city in all fields including sports and culture whereas everything is added to happiness of its people, they recalled.
Earlier, they said, people here used to watch this off-road challenge only on TV screens and YouTube channels, but now the derajaat dwellers are watching this national jeep rally for the second time in their own city for which this family deserves all the praise, they opined.
