On the lines of Arujna awards, the Uttarakhand Government would start the State Sports Awards, these awards would be given to 15 sportsmen every year and they would carry prize money of Rs 1.0 lakh and citation.
The Sports Minister Dinesh Agarwal informed this while addressing a programe on the occasion of sports day at the Raipur sports college here
on Friday.
Paying tribute to hockey legend Major Dyan Chand, the sports minister announced that the astro turf hockey play ground of Raipur Sports College would be named after Dhyan Chand. He advised the sport persons to take inspiration from the life of Dhyan Chand.
Agarwal said the state government is working on a proposal in which the sportsmen of the state who would bag gold medals in the forthcoming Asian games would be given an out of turn Group B appointment in the state government.
He said that the government would soon come out with a sports policy for promotion of sports in the state. Agarwal announced that for providing quality training to the sports persons 100 new posts of sport coaches would be created in the state.
On the state sports awards the sports minister said that every year 15 sportsperson would be selected that would include the disabled and veteran sportsmen also and these awards would be presented on the occasion of State foundation day on November 9.
He declared that the food allowance of students of Sports College would
be increased from Rs 150
to Rs 200.
He also declared that a pension scheme for former sportspersons would be launched on the anniversary of GB Pant this year.