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India Sukhbir Badal gives incentives to encourage sportspersons
The hockey league experiment started by the Punjab government has borne fruit as 9 out of 18 players selected for junior India Team for Asia Cup to be played in Malaysia belong to Punjab and were part of Punjab Hockey League (PHL). Announcing this at PAU here today, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal said that his sole mission was to revive traditional games like hockey and kabaddi and he was happy that his efforts have borne fruits. Badal said Punjab would soon start World Kabaddi league on the pattern of IPL (cricket) with a prize money of Rs one crore to revive this traditional game. Badal was speaking in a function of the Sports department organised to distribute sports kits worth Rs 1.07 crore to over 6425 players of various sports wings from all districts of the state and 250 hockey teams of PHL. On this occasion, Badal also inaugurated PHL for boys and girls for the session 2009-10. The league to be played by 250 hockey teams would be played on synthetic hockey surfaces at Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar. The Deputy Chief Minister announced setting up of two centres of sports excellence at Mohali and Jalandhar on the patteren of NIS Patiala to provide world class training facilities to the sports persons. He announced doubling the diet money of players from Rs 60 to Rs 120 and from Rs 30 to Rs 60 for various age categories. The Punjab government has earmarked Rs 17 crore for this year under the players diet scheme. He announced Rs 2 crore prize money for any player of Punjab winning Gold, Rs one srore for silver and Rs 50 lakh for winning bronze in Olympics. He said that this amount has been doubled since the last Olympics. Badal said that it was matter of great pride for all Punjabis that in last Olympics the only individual gold bagged by India was by a Punjabi player Abhinav Bindra. He said sports department in Punjab had been revitalised to hunt and promote talent from rural areas and provide them specialised training. He said that under the PYKA scheme more than 1200 villages have been provided sports equipments worth Rs one lakh each during last three months. -- (UNI) -- 16SPD51.xml
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