The sportspersons from Haryana have bagged two more medals on Tuesday at the ongoing 18th edition of the Asian Games being held at Jakarta.
A total of nine medals have so far been bagged by the country in the ongoing Asian Games during last three days, in which players from Haryana are leading with five medals, said Haryana Sports and Youth Affairs Minister, Anil Vij on Tuesday.
He said that the medal winning players of the state in the Asian Games would be honoured with cash prizes and jobs as per their eligibility.
Congratulating the winners and people of the state, Vij said that Rs 1.5 crore and a job would be given to Sanjeev Rajput who bagged silver medal and Rs 75 lakh and a job to Abhishek Verma who bagged bronze medal in shooting event on Tuesday.
Vij said that a provision has been made to give cash prize of Rs three crore and Group A category job to a player bagging gold medal. Similarly, player bagging silver medal would be given Rs 1.5 crore and a job, and bronze medal winner would be given Rs 75 lakh and a job under the sports policy of Haryana Government, he added.
The Minister said that Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat from Haryana have won gold medals in wrestling, lakshay Sheoran and Sanjeev Rajput have won silver medals and Abhishek Verma has won bronze medals in shooting events at the Asian Games.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal has also congratulated all five sportspersons for bringing laurels to the country and the state by winning medals at the Asian Games.
Indian shooter Sanjeev Rajput won silver in men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions category on Tuesday while Abhishek Verma bagged bronze medal in the men’s 10 Metre air pistol final.
Bajrang Punia had won gold medal in free style 65kg wrestling competition while Vinesh Phogat had rewritten the history after becoming the first Indian woman wrestler to win Asian Games gold medal. Phogat is also a two-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist.
19-year-old Indian shooter lakshay Sheroan, from Haryana’s Jind had bagged the silver medal in the men’s trap event in Indonesia on Monday.
Earlier this year, 22 sportspersons of Haryana had won medals in the XXI Commonwealth Games-2018 held at Gold Coast, Australia which is 33 per cent of the total medals won by the country.