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As portion of efforts to recognise the hard enactment of sports personalities and pull much youngsters to instrumentality to sporting events, the Puducherry authorities has evolved a strategy to supply currency awards to medal winners successful planetary and nationalist level competitions.
After taking inputs from State governments which are already moving akin schemes, the authorities precocious notified the ‘Grant of Cash Award to Medal Winners of Puducherry astatine the South Zonal, National and International Sports events organised by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports’, to supply currency grant to achievers.
As per the scheme, gold, silver, and bronze medal winners are eligible for prize money. The strategy enables the authorities to supply currency grant of up to ₹50 lakh for golden medallist successful Olympics, ₹20 lakh for Asian/Commonwealth Games, ₹1.5 lakh for Senior National Championship and ₹20,000 for South Zone Championship. The teams getting golden medal successful each these competitions would beryllium eligible for currency assistance ranging from ₹10,000 to ₹10 lakh. Silver and bronze medal winners crossed each contention levels are besides entitled for currency awards, said an official.
“Till the framing of guidelines, we didn’t person immoderate strategy to supply assistance to medal winning sports persons successful Puducherry. Now we person brought retired the guidelines and the Lieutenant Governor issued an bid notifying the strategy a fewer weeks ago. The strategy volition surely promote much information successful sporting events,” helium said.
The Directorate of Sports and Youth Affairs has been entrusted with the task to instrumentality the strategy done the Sports Development Authority of Puducherry. There are astir 200 applications pending with the Directorate for assistance. The applications are being scrutinised, helium said.
“This twelvemonth we volition beryllium disbursing currency prize to astatine slightest 100 medal winners. The process is connected and it volition beryllium distributed precise soon. Around ₹10 crore would beryllium spent to honour medal winners, including those who participated successful the events held successful the past,” the authoritative said.
