By Punjabnewswire4u
CHANDIGARH, APRIL
29
The Punjab Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, today
felicitated 67 outstanding sportspersons from different sports disciplines.
They were presented the highest sports award --- Maharaja Ranjit Singh Award –
at the packed Tagore Theatre in Sector 18.
So far 305 sportspersons (114 from 1978
to 1996, 124 from 1997 to 2004 and 67 from 2005 to 2010) have been conferred
this prestigious award.
Each recipient was received a cheque for Rs. 2.00 lakh, a
trophy of Maharaja Ranjit Singh astride horse back in warrior dress, a blazer
with pocket, a tie and a scroll of honour.
International
shooter Avneet Kaur Sidhu Hundal and long jumper Amritpal Singh were among
those stole the show. Aveent is gold medalist of 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games and bronze
winner in ISSF World Cup, Resende (Brazil)- 2006.
Amritpal
Singh had erased National record of T.C Yohanan of 8.07 metres in long jump with a leap of
jumping 8.08 metres. This record still stands in Amritpal’s name. Amritpal
Singh had also won gold in 32th National Games 2002 at Hyderabad. Another
medalist was Rajwinder Kaur who gave outstanding performance in 400x400m during
Commonwealth Games in 2006 at Melbourne and won the gold. She also clinched
gold in Asian Athletics Championships in 2005 at Inchon. Padma Shree hockey Olympian Balbir Singh Kular who won
gold in Olympics 1964 at Tokyo and Asian
Games 1966 at Bangkok and bronze in Olympics 1968 at Mexico, also received a
standing ovation as he received the coveted award.
Speaking on the occasion Mr Badal said that sports was on
the priority list of the state government. The Government has recently
recognized the service of the players by providing 10 Group-A posts to the
medalists of Olympic, Asian and Commonwealth Games. All the players have been
appointed as Deputy Superintendent of Police. He further said that the Govt.
has always acknowledged the devotion and sacrifice of the players they have
done for the field of sports.
The Government has given cash incentives to the players
worth 10.00 crore in the recent past, which includes Rs. 1.00 crore each to cricketer
Yuvraj Singh, and shooter Abhinav Bindra.
On
the request of Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal regarding the
reservation of 100 seat for sportsperson, Mr Parkash Singh Badal announced 125
seats purely reserved for outstanding sportspersons in the state and he also
inspired sportspersons to give training to the players of at least in one
village by adopting that village.
Mr Sukhbir
Singh Badal said that Punjab was fully aware to provide latest sports
infrastructure to sportspersons, so that they can train and compete with their
international counterparts. He also announced that the Govt. would organise
Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh Punjab Games in priority sports disciplines some
times in the third quarter of the year. A prize money of Rs. 25.00 lakh per
discipline would be given to the first three position holder teams. One hundred
players in each discipline would be ranked on the basis of their performance in
these games. Sports scholarships at the rate of Rs. 10,000 per person would be
given to the ranked players. Similarly junior ranked players would be given a
sports scholarship of Rs. 5,000 per head.
Mr Sukhdev Singh
Dhindsa, Member Parliament and President, Punjab Olympic Association was also
present during the function.
Those who received the Maharaja
Ranjit Singh Award were:
2005: Sunaina (Weightlifting),
Puneet Rana (swimming), Gurminder Singh (weightlifting),
Parvinder Kaur (judo), Sukhjinder Singh (weightlifting), Maha
Singh (athletics), Anjana (handball), Kanwaljit
Singh (cycling), Sukhbir Singh (athletics),
Rampal Singh (rowing).
2006: Navjot Channa (judo),
Amritpal Singh (athletics), Prabhjit Singh (cycling),
Gurmeet Singh (athletics),
Naunidh Singh (posthumously, athletics), Kuldeep Kaur (handball),
Arun Singh (boxing), Rupinder Kaur (boxing), Gurcharan Singh
(w’lifting).
2007: Avneet Kaur Sidhu Hundal
(shooting), Harveen Sarao (shooting), Rajwinder Kaur Gill
(athletics), Gurpreet Kaur (cycling), Harpreet Singh (cycling),
Karamjeet Kaur (fencing), Jagdeep Singh (basketball), Ruchi Trikha
(fencing), Yadwinder Singh (basketball), Shingara Mattu
(taekwondo), Sukhdev Singh (handball), Pawan Kumar (handball),
Gaurav Sehgal (handball), Sachin Choudhary
(handball).
2008: Amanpreet Singh
(shooting), Kulwinder Kaur (cycling), Abhishek Rana (cycling),
Sarabjit Singh (cycling), Gurpreet
Singh
(cycling), Jaswinder Singh (equestrian), Rajinder
Kaur(cycling), Amandeep Singh (cycling), Talwinder Singh
(equestrian), Meenkshi D/o Tersem Singh (gymnastics), Neeraj
Sawhney (cycling), Talwinderjit Singh (basketball), Raghu
Kumar (handball),
Kulwinder Singh (handball).
2009: Jashandeep Kaur
(gymnastics), Yashpal Solanki
(judo), Kamalpreet Sharma (cycling), Sarbjeet Kanda (w’lifting),
Shamsher Pratap Singh (athletics), Navjot Kaur
(fencing), Mohinder Singh Rawat (handball), Raj Kumar (handicapped,
badminton), Balbir Singh Kular (hockey).
2010: Navdeep Kaur Dhillon
(shooting), Surpreet Singh (cycling), Menakshi (gymnastics),
Rambir Singh (wrestling), Amrinder Singh (archery), Harpreet Singh
(athletics), Baljit Singh (handball), Gurbaj Singh (hockey), Kiranjeet
Kaur (basketball), Amandeep Singh (boxing) and Virpal Kaur
(kabaddi).
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