Haryana to honour Commonwealth Games medal winners with cash awards

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by Haryananewswire (Balbir)
CHANDIGARH, OCT 8   Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today announced that Haryana’s medal winners and their coaches in the ongoing Commonwealth Games would be honoured at a public function. The Government would disburse cash awards to them for bringing glory to the state and the country. Mr Hooda announced this while talking to media persons at Panchkula today.
Mr Hooda said that Haryana Government would give cash award of Rs 3  lakh, Rs 2 lakh and Rs 1 lakh to the Haryana coaches of gold, silver and bronze medallists, respectively.  The state players winning gold, silver and bronze medals would be faciliated with cash awards of Rs 15 lakh, 10 lakh and 5 lakh, respectively.
While replying to a question regarding sterling performance of Haryana players on winning seven gold medals in Commonwealth Games, Mr Hooda said that it was a matter of great pleasure that the players have brought glory for the state and the country. He said that Haryana players  have contributed seven gold medals out of  14 India have won  so far.
Five wrestlers of Haryana, namely  Gita,  Ravinder Singh,  Sanjay Kumar,  Rajinder and  Anil Kumar bagged one gold in their respective category.  Shooter from Faridabad Anisha Sayyed brought laurels  by winning two gold medals.  Deepak, Nirmala Devi, Suman Kundu, Dharminder Dalal have won silver and bronze medals. Woman wrestlers Babita and Anita are in finals of 51 kg and 67 kg category.
The Haryana CM was confident that more Haryana players would win many  as 50 players are representing the country in 13 sports disciplines. Seven boxers namely  Bijender, Akhil Kumar, Jai Bhagwan, Manoj, Dilbag, Dinesh and Paramjit Samota; discus thrower Seema Antil; wrestlers Anil and Yogeshwar Dutt are also considered potential medal winners.