Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will give cash awards worth Rs 9.30 crore to the 23 sportspersons from the state who represented the country in the recently-concluded Commonwealth Games at Birmingham.
In the felicitation ceremony to be held at Chandigarh on August 27, the Chief Minister will felicitate all the players from Punjab who won medals and also those who participated, said the state Sports Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer on Friday.
Hayer said that continuous efforts are being made by the Chief Minister to make Punjab the leading state of the country in sports and it is a part of this strategy that the sportsmen of the State are being honoured with cash prizes.
Apart from this, on August 29, the grand event of sports ‘Khedan Watan Punjab Deya-2022’ is starting, he said.
The Minister said that the silver medallist of Birmingham Commonwealth Games-2022 will be awarded Rs 50 lakh, while the bronze medallist will be awarded Rs 40 lakh, and the participating sportsperson will be awarded Rs five lakh each.
“Total of 23 players from Punjab participated in Birmingham, out of which 19 players won three silver and four bronze medals. Weightlifter Vikas Thakur; Men’s hockey players Manpreet Singh, Harmanpreet Singh, Akashdeep Singh, Mandeep Singh, Gurjant Singh, Hardik Singh, Varun Kumar, Krishan Pathak, Shamsher Singh, Jarmanjit Singh, and Jugraj Singh; Women cricketers Harmanpreet Kaur, Harleen Deol, and Tania Bhatia won the silver medal; while the weightlifters — Harjinder Kaur, Lovepreet Singh, and Gurdeep Singh and women hockey player Gurjit Kaur won bronze medals,” said Hayer.
Apart from this, Jasleen Saini participated in Judo, Navjit Kaur Dhillon in Athletics, and Naman Kapil and Vishwajit Singh in cycling.