Punjab Government has decided to honour 93 players with ‘Maharaja Ranjit Singh Award’ on July 9, besides honouring 12 veteran players from the State.
Announcing this, the state Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi on Friday said that the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh would honour 93 players excelling at the national and international level July 9 with the ‘Maharaja Ranjit Singh Award’.
“Every player receiving the award would get Rs two lakh cash, Trophy of Maharaja Ranjit Singh Ji in armour atop a steed, Blazer and a Scroll,” he said.
Sodhi said that the Punjab Government is fully committed to uplift the standard of sports and encourage the players under which the Maharaja Ranjit Singh Awards pending since seven years, would be given to the players of State.
A total of 81 players excelling in the sporting arena from 2011-2018 have been selected for the award besides 12 other veteran players who have already been felicitated by the Union Government.
The Minister said that in a major shift in the Sports Policy, it has been decided that the player from Punjab honoured with Padma Awards or Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award or Arjuna Award, would automatically get selected for Maharaja Ranjit Singh Award.