The 2016 Rio Olympics Silver Medalist and the shuttler PV Sindhu, a first Indian woman player to reach the milestone, was honoured by the Government of Andhra Pradesh with a Group-1 officer job.
On Thursday, Chief Minister Chandra Babu Naidu handed over appointment letter to Sindhu and invited her to develop sports in the State and wished her more international medals to win and she will bring more laurels to the Country. Sindhu thanked Naidu for appointing her as Group-1 officer and promised her support for the promotion of sports.
In other meeting, Chief Minister decided to dole out Rs 2,000 stipend per month to the unemployed youth of the State as promised in election manifesto. State’s Ministers Yanamala Ramakrishnudu, K Kala Venkata Rao, Nara lokesh, Pithani Satyanarayana, Kollu Ravindra and Chief Secretary Dinesh Kumar participated in the meeting.
Naidu directed Chief Secretary and his Cabinet Colleagues to prepare a blue print of modalities at the earliest to implement the election promise. It is decided in the meeting to allocate Rs 1,000 crores in 2018-19 FY budget to dole 12 lakh jobless educated youth, sources revealed.