Buoyant over the number of medals won by Haryana sportspersons in the recently concluded Commonwealth Games, Haryana Government has decided to hire foreign trainers to impart training to the sportspersons of the state for winning more medals in Olympics.
Announcing this, Sports and Youth Affairs Minister, Anil Vij on Friday said that Haryana is the first state to give maximum cash prize and government jobs to sportspersons.
Vij said that the medal winner sportspersons at national and international level competitions would get jobs under the new Sports Policy of the State Government.
He said that as per the policy, the gold medalist in Commonwealth Games would be given cash prize of Rs 1.50 crore and Group-A post, silver medalist would be given cash prize of Rs 75 lakh and Group-B post and bronze medalist would be given Rs 50 lakh and Group-C post.
The Minister said that the sportspersons from Haryana bagged 22 medals in the recently concluded Commonwealth Games, which is 33 per cent of the total medals won by the country.
The State Government will honour all 22 CWG medal winners in a function to be orgainsed here on April 26.