Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will award Rs 9.30 crore to 23 state athletes, who represented the country in the recently concluded Commonwealth Games 2022 at Birmingham.
The Punjab CM will felicitate all Punjab players who won medals and also those who participated in the tournament, in the felicitation ceremony on August 27 in Chandigarh, said the state Sports Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer on Friday.
Hayer further stated that the Chief Minister is making continuous efforts to make Punjab the leading sports state in the country and that financial rewards are being awarded to state athletes as part of this approach.
Apart from it, the grand sports event 'Khedan Watan Punjab Deya-2022' begins on August 29, he said.
Notably, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann had announced Rs 50 lakh for CWG silver medalists from the state and Rs 40 lakh for bronze medalists.
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A total of 23 Punjab athletes competed in Birmingham. Weightlifter Vikas Thakur; Men’s hockey players Manpreet Singh, Harmanpreet Singh, Akashdeep Singh, Mandeep Singh, Gurjant Singh, Hardik Singh, Varun Kumar, Krishan Pathak, Shamsher Singh, Jarmanjit Singh, and Jugraj Singh; Women cricketers Harmanpreet Kaur, Harleen Deol, and Tania Bhatia won the silver medal.
Weightlifters Harjinder Kaur, Lovepreet Singh, Gurdeep Singh and women hockey player Gurjit Kaur clinched bronze medals at the tournament.
Besides this, Jasleen Saini competed in Judo, Navjit Kaur Dhillon in Athletics, and Naman Kapil and Vishwajit Singh represented India in cycling.
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-PTC News