Haryana Director General of Police BS Sandhu on Thursday honoured four outstanding sportspersons of Haryana Police who have brought laurels to the state and nation by winning one gold and three silver medals in recently concluded Commonwealth Games held in Gold Coast, Australia.
Besides this, DGP Sandhu also announced that the players of Haryana Police, who would bag gold, silver and bronze medals in the upcoming Jakarta Asian Games, would be awarded with prize money of Rs 10 lakh, Rs 7 lakh and Rs 5 lakh respectively. This amount would be given on behalf of the Police Department.
Indian contingent had finished third in the medal tally with a total of 66 medals in CWG 2018 and Haryana players especially the women led the medal tally for India with a total of 22 individual medals which is 33 per cent.
Those who were honoured by the DGP included gold medalist Vikas Krishan and silver medalists Mausam Khatri, Babita Phogat and Seema Antil.
While DSP Vikas Krishan had bagged gold medal in boxing, Mausam Khatri, and Babita Phogat, both Sub Inspector (SI) had won silver medal in wrestling. Similarly, Seema Antil, SI had made the state and country proud by bagging silver medal in discuss throw event.
Sandhu congratulated all the players and said that it is matter of pride that Haryana police personnel are not only participating in national and international sports events but also made their identity in country’s medal tally.
He said that all these four players were recruited in Haryana Police under Sports Policy of the State Government. The DGP also presented a cheque of Rs five lakh to gold medallist Vikas Krishan and Rs three lakh each to silver medalists namely Mausam Khatri, Babita Phogat and Seema Antil.
Notably, Haryana Government will also honour all 22 CWG medal winners from the state in a function to be orgainsed here on April 26. Every gold medal winner from Haryana will get cash award of Rs 1.5 crore, silver medal winner Rs 75 lakh and bronze medal winner Rs 50 lakh.