The prestigious Bhim Award will be conferred upon 42 outstanding sportspersons of Haryana at a function to be organised at Haryana Raj Bhavan here on February 19. Each recipient of the Bhim Award would get Rs 5 lakh in cash, a memento, citation, blazer, tie and scarf.
Haryana Sports and Youth Affairs Minister, Anil Vij on Friday said that the State Government would give away the ‘Bhim Award’ to sportspersons of the State who have exhibited outstanding performance in national and international competitions in the years 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17.
The Minister said that the sportspersons to be honoured for the year 2013-14 included Babita of Bhiwani and Ravinder Singh of Jhajjar for wrestling, Vikas Krishan of Bhiwani for boxing, Sandeep Kundu of Sonepat for taekwondo, Sandeep Kumar of Bhiwani for athletics, Sardar Singh of Sirsa for Hockey, Praveen Kaur of Sirsa for roller skating, Rani Rampal of Kurukshetra for hockey, Deepa Malik and Dharam Singh of Sonepat for Para-Athletics.
He added that the sportspersons who would be honoured for 2016-17 included Ankur Mittal for shooting,. Sakshi Malik for wrestling, Sandeep Kumar of Mahendragarh for Athletics, Saurav of Sonepat for taekwondo, Pankaj of Kurukshetra for cycling, Meena Kumari of Faridabad for shooting, Ritu of Jind for handball, Gauri Sheoran and Vishvajit of Panchkula for shooting, Jaideep of Rohtak for athletics and Ranbir Singh Saini of Gurugram for golf.