Timely Policy bound prizes/jobs for Sports achievers

Updated: 10/10/2024
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Last Updated: 10 Oct 2024

Special Funds: Punjab players now get[1]
-- Preparation funds before International Tournaments
-- Rewards are given for participation, even incase of No Medals

Timely Payments: Paris Olympics players received their rewards within 7 days of Conclusion of Olympics(11th Aug)[1:1]
-- Distributed Total Prize money of Rs. 88 crore in 2.5 years[2]

IMPACT: Broken 72-year-old Medal record

32 players from Punjab won 20 medals in Asian Games 2023[3]

Waiting since 2017(Imagine! the state of previous Govt)

1807 sportspersons' awards were pending of total prize money of Rs 5.94 crore
-- CM Mann finally gave them rewards on 27 Aug 2023[4]

Paris Olympics 2024

-- 9 Tokyo Olympic medallists among total 11 Punjab players given PCS, PPS jobs on 4 February 2024[5]
-- In a 1st in the state, 4 players were appointed for Punjab Civil Services

Timely Awards[1:2]

  • 8 Hockey players who were bronze winners will be rewarded a cash of Rs 1 crore on 18th Aug 2024
  • 9 players got Rs 15 lakh each despite No Medals: 6 Shooting participants, 2 Athletics participants, and 1 Golf player among them

Preparation Fund

  • All qualified players were given an assistance of Rs 15 lakh[6]

Asian Games 2023[6:1]

“Getting assistance prior to events like the Asian Games is the biggest positive for each one of us” said Indian women’s captain Harmanpreet Kaur

  • 16 January 2024: The cash awards of Rs 29.25 crore distributed among the 32 medallists by CM Bhagwant Singh Mann
  • Preparation Fund: 58 players were given an assistance of Rs 8 lakh ahead of Asian Games

National medallists[6:2]

  • 16 January 2024: Rs 4.58 crore to 136 national medallists

Commonwealth Games[7]

  • 27 August 2022: Mann felicitates all 23 from Punjab with cash prizes worth Rs 9.30 crore

Special Olympics World Summer Games[8]

  • Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann today felicitated eight specially abled players who won medals during the Special Olympics World Summer Games-2023, held in Berlin

Other Prize Awards

REFERENCES:

  1. https://www.babushahi.com/full-news.php?id=189727 ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. https://www.babushahi.com/full-news.php?id=192321 ↩︎

  3. https://www.babushahi.com/full-news.php?id=179939 ↩︎

  4. https://www.outlookindia.com/sports/punjab-govt-to-give-cash-rewards-to-1-807-sportspersons-five-years-later-news-313943 ↩︎

  5. https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/olympic-medallists-punjab-players-pcs-pps-jobs-9144385/ ↩︎

  6. https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/bhagwant-mann-distributes-rs-33-83-crore-168-medal-winners-9112734/ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  7. https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/commonwealth-games-mann-felicitates-all-23-from-punjab-8115958/ ↩︎

  8. https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/chandigarh/cm-felicitates-specially-abled-players-535895 ↩︎

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