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India Haryana to have sports fund, cash award money increased
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today announced to set up a State Sports Fund to promote sports and sportspersons and enhance amount of cash awards being given to the medal winners of National Games. He also said the government has a plan to open a Sports Academy and a Sports University in the state. He announced that wrestler Ramesh Kumar Gulia, who won gold medal at international level, would be appointed as DSP in Haryana Police. Mr Hooda was speaking at the opening ceremony of the 23rd Haryana State Games organised at the campus of Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU here yesterday. The four day games are being organised by the Haryana Olympic Association. About 6000 players from all over Haryana are participating in this mega sport event in which 28 sports events would be organized. The Chief Minister declared the state games open and hoisted the flag of the games. He took salute from the impressive march-past put up the participating sports persons. He released a souvenir and Technical Hand Book of the games. Arjun Awardee and Judo Player of Rohtak Virender Singh administered oath to the participants to play with sportsman spirit. Announcing a bonanza for the sports persons, the Chief Minister said that now the gold medal winner of National Games would get Rs 3 lakh, the silver medal winner would get Rs 2 lakh and the bronze medal winner would get Rs 1 lakh. Earlier, the medal winners of these games were given Rs 51,000, Rs 31,000 and Rs 11,000 respectively. He said the state government was spending Rs 56.48 crore during this financial year for promotion of sports in the state. -- (UNI) -- 22SPD9.xml
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