Sports department flayed for not recognising victory of visually challenged player in CM trophy

with pic (G.Moorthy)

MADURAI 

Members of the Tamil Nadu Association for the Rights of All Types of Differently Abled and Caregivers (TARATDAC) on Tuesday submitted a petition with the territory medication demanding enactment against Sports Department Officers for not recognising the triumph of existent otherwise abled sports subordinate who won the competitions successful the precocious held CM trophy sports events.  

The petition work that the visually challenged sports player, Pandiyarajan, who enrolled successful the CM trophy for the 100m race successful otherwise abled category, completed the contention successful the 2nd position.  

Though helium received confirmation aft contention of the race, the petition said: “The sports section authorities despite getting a signature from him pursuing the race were denying to provide him with the certificate, trophy and currency prize.” 

N. Mathibarathy, TARATDAC, territory president, said, “As acknowledging him completing the contention successful the 2nd position, Pandiyarajan signed a insubstantial handed implicit to him. But, despite the confirmation, helium has not received the certificate and prize amount, which is adjacent to ₹2,000.” 

He further added that they had not received immoderate reply from the authorities about whether he was adjacent qualified for the prize.  

The petitioners doubted whether the prize was fixed to a antithetic person. 

cccThe Hindu independently attempted to verify the allegations, but the authorities could not beryllium reached.