The players from Haryana , who won laurels for the country in the recently-held Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, were honoured and awarded Rs13. 72 crore in prize money by the State Government.
Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda rewarded and honoured 20 players who had won medals in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games at a function organised in the Rajiv Gandhi Education City, Sonepat.
Besides the medal winners, Hooda also honoured 22 players who had participated in the Glasgow CWG and gave them appreciation letters.
The gold medal winners in wrestling, Sushil Kumar, Yogeshwar Dutt, Babita Kumari, Amit Kumar and Vinesh Phogat got cheques for Rs1 crore each and a cheque for Rs62.50 lakh was given to Gagan Narang.
Cheques amounting to Rs50 lakh each were given to Silver Medal winners in wrestling, Sakshi Malik, lalita, Satyvrat Kadiyan, Bajrang and Geetika Jakhar. Silver Medal winners Sanjeev Rajput, Anisha Sayyad, Gurpal Singh, Harpreet Singh for shooting, Vijender Singh and Mandeep Jangra for Boxing, Sardar Singh for Hockey and Seema Punia for Athletics were also given the cheques.
Bronze medal winners Pawan Kumar for wrestling and Pinki Rani for boxing were given cheques for Rs25 lakh each.
Cheques amounting to Rs5 lakh each was also given to all who had participated in the CWG. Those who have been awarded include Vikas Gulia, Om Parkash, Krishna Punia, Manoj Kumar, Sumit Sangwan, Parveen Kumar, Pooja Rani, Manjeet Nandal, Vikender Singh, Prikshit Kumar, Grima Chaudhary, Jeena Devi, Ankur Mittal, Meena Kumari, Aarti Singh Rao, Jaspreet Kaur, Deepika, Poonam Rani, Ritu Rani, Rani Rampal, Savita Punia and Navjot Kaur.
Hooda said while the population of Haryana constituted only two per cent of the total population of the country yet out of the total 64 medals won by the players of India in Glasgow CWG, 33 medals had been won by the players from Haryana. Earlier also, the players from Haryana had won one-third of the total medals won by India in the CWG and Asian Games.
He said the policy of ‘Padak lao Pad Pao’ introduced to increase the interest of youth in sports activities. While the youth of Haryana is getting drawn towards sports, 73 per cent of the youth in Punjab is under the influence of drugs”, he claimed.