manali union minister for sports ajay maken said himachal pradesh is the first state in the country to oppose the sports bill he said that himachal chief minister pk dhoomal had forwarded a letter to government and registered protest against the billmaken said sports bill should be passed for the welfare of people and it should be brought under the scope of right to information act rti it will bring transparency in the selection of players common people will get to know that how a player is selected and is he eligible for being in the teamhe also insisted that officials of sports associations should be specialist in that field the head of a sports department should be serving the only department he should concentrate only in his field and he should not be the incharge of any other sports association or department he added he said sooner or later sports bill would be passedajay maken was attending the flag off ceremony during adventure training camp at atal bihari vajpayee institute of mountaineering and allied sports manali on friday he said soon an artificial rock climbing wall would be made in manali and ministry of sports was spending rs 2 crore for this purposehe said 73 lakh trees were planted under my earth my duty programme last year and this year nehru yuva kendra is going to plant 50 lakh trees in leh during earth festival on september 12