All 22 sportspersons from Haryana, who have qualified to participate in Rio Olympics 2016, would be honoured by the State Government in a special function. Each of them will get `15 lakh in cash as a reward money.
The state Sports and Youth Affairs Minister, Anil Vij on Monday said that the contingent of Haryana included 10 male and 12 female sportspersons and they comprise about 21 per cent of the Indian contingent.
The Minister hoped that they would give their outstanding performance.
All these players have been provided facilities under the new sports policy formulated by the State Government. Those players who would bring laurels to the country and the state by winning medals in the Olympics, would be honoured with cash awards as per the new sports policy of Haryana Government, said Vij.
Under the policy, cash award of `6 crore is given for winning gold medal, `4 crore for silver medal and Rs two-and-a-half crore for bronze medal. Also, each participant gets `15 lakh in cash as a reward money.
Among the female sportspersons who would participate at Rio Olympics include Nirmala Sheoran of Bhiwani in athletics (400 metres), Seema Antil of Sonepat in athletics (Discus Throw), Vinesh Phogat of Bhiwani in wrestling (48kg weight category), Babita Kumari of Bhiwani in wrestling (53kg) and Sakshi Malik of Rohtak in wrestling (58kg). Others included hockey players namely Savita Punia of Sirsa, Poonam Malik of Hisar, Monika Malik of Sonepat, Rani Rampal, Navjot Kaur of Kurukshetra and Deepika Thakur of Yamunanagar, the Sub Captain.
The ten male players included Sandeep Kumar of Mahendragarh in athletics (50 km walk), Inderjeet Singh of Bhiwani in athletics (Shot-put), Dharmbir Singh of Rohtak in athletics (200 metres), Manoj Kumar of Kaithal in boxing (64kg), Vikas Krishan Yadav of Gurgaon in boxing (75kg), Yogeshwar Dutt of Sonepat in wrestling (65kg), Ravinder Khatri of Jhajjar in wrestling (85kg), Hardeep Singh of Jind in wrestling (98kg), Sardara Singh of Sirsa and Surender Kumar of Karnal are hockey players.