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Malegaon:
Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Patron of Petroleum Sports
Promotion Board (PSPB) Murli Deora Sunday announced cash
incentives to the Indian medal winners in the Commonwealth Games,
2010.
In a decision taken by the Board
Sunday morning, the gold medalist would be awarded a cash prize of
Rs. 10 lakhs, Silver medalist Rs. 7.5 lakhs and Bronze medalist Rs.
5 lakh.
Describing the significance of the decision, Deora said, "This
will go a long way in promoting sports in the country. He
expressed hope that the lead provided by the oil PSUs and PSPB
will encourage youngsters to take sports as a career."
PSPB has to its credit promoting some of the leading players of
the country in various games. They include Ronjan Sodhi
(Shooting); Ms Saina Naiwal, Chetan Anand, Ms Jwala Gutta, V Diju
(Badminton); Sharad Kamal, Soumyadeep Roy, Ms Poulami Ghatak,
Subojit Saha, A Amal Raj (Table Tennis); some of the prominent
athletes like Ms Harvant Kaur (Discuss), Om Prakash (Shotput), Ms
Sinimone Paulose (800 mtrs), Ms Chitra, Ms Mandeep, Ms Jauna
Murmur and Ms Tiana (4 x 400) ; Jagsir Singh (Javelin) and Rohan
Boppana (Tennis). Nearly 50 sports persons affiliated to PSPB are
representing India in the Games.
R S Sharma, President PSPB & CMD ONGC stated that with today’s
announcement Indian athlete will be further motivated to give
their best in CWG 2010 and bring glory to the Nation by winning
maximum medals.
He further said that PSPB will
continue to play a vital role in the development of sports in
country. In this endeavour PSPB is setting up an Archery Academy
at Bolpur(West Bengal), in addition to its existing Table Tennis
Academy at Ajmer.
PSPB is a leading body of oil PSUs for promotion and development
of sports in the country.
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