Scam used to happen before 2014, now players are breaking old records: Anurag Thakur. Loktej Sports News

Lucknow, 27 January (HS). Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur, while addressing a program in Lucknow on Saturday, said that before 2014, there was an era of scams. Earlier no one could have even predicted that one day players in Uttar Pradesh would get prizes worth crores. Now, with hard work and the help of the Central and State Government, the players of the country are breaking the old records.

Anurag Thakur said that Uttar Pradesh is one of the states in the country that gives the highest prize money to the players. Uttar Pradesh is now moving towards Uttam Pradesh. For this he also praised Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur said these things while addressing a program organized at Indira Gandhi Pratishthan in Lucknow on Saturday.

Earlier people used to buy jobs, today government is giving money along with job: Yogi

At the award distribution ceremony, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that 16 percent of the country’s population lives in Uttar Pradesh. Our players have won 25 percent medals. This is the result of the work done in accordance with the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Earlier people used to buy jobs by paying money. Today the government is giving jobs and also money.

Medha smiled at the peak of success

There was no limit to the happiness of the players after receiving prizes ranging from Rs 75 lakh to Rs 4.5 crore from Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in the ceremony. Asian and Para Asian Games medal winners and participating state players were honored with Naga Awards. 189 outstanding players received prize money worth Rs 62 crore. The number of players who received cash prizes of Rs 1.5 crore and Rs 3 crore was high. Seven players also received appointment letters. Of these, four are being appointed to the post of Deputy SP. Others are getting appointment as District Youth Welfare Officer and Passenger-Goods Tax Officer.

Meerut’s athlete Parul Choudhary tops award recipients

The state government gives a reward of Rs 3 crore to the gold medalist, Rs 1.5 crore to the silver medalist and Rs 75 lakh to the bronze medalist in the Asian Games. Among the award winners, Meerut athlete Parul Choudhary received the highest amount of Rs 4.50 crore. Parul had won gold medal in 5000 meter race and silver medal in 3000 meter steeple chase in the Asian Games.

Hockey player Lalit Kumar Upadhyay of Varanasi, who won gold medal in the Asian Games, javelin thrower Annu Rani of Meerut, cricketer Rinku Singh of Aligarh and Deepti Sharma of Agra, Kabaddi player Arjun Deshwal and shooter Akhil Kumar of Baghpat will get Rs 3 crore each. Awards were given. Badminton player and IAS officer Suhas LY and javelin thrower Praveen Kumar, who won the gold medal in the Para Asian Games, were also given Rs 3 crore each.

Trainers also get awards, players get incentives

For the first time, coaches who went to the Asian Games were awarded cash prizes. Not only this, every player participating in the Asian Games and Para Asian Games was given an incentive amount of Rs 5 lakh each.

Uttar Pradesh shines in Asian and Para Asian Games

Players from Uttar Pradesh won seven gold, nine silver and nine bronze medals in the Asian Games. While 16 players participated in it. Players from Uttar Pradesh brought two gold, five silver and four bronze medals in the Para Asian Games. While 18 players participated in it.

Asian Games medal winners

Parul Chaudhary got one gold and one silver in athletics, Annu Rani got one gold in athletics, Deepti Sharma got gold in cricket, Lalit Upadhyay got gold in hockey, Rinku Singh got gold in cricket, Akhil Sheoran got gold in shooting, Ajay Saroj got silver in athletics, Karthik Kumar silver in athletics, Puneet Kumar one silver and one bronze in sailing, Neeraj silver in sailing, Nitish Kumar silver in sailing, Arvind Singh silver in sailing, Prachi silver in athletics, Vantika Agarwal silver in chess, Kiran Baliyan bronze in athletics, Seema Punia got bronze medal in athletics, Gurvir Singh got bronze medal in athletics, Arjun Singh got bronze medal in kayaking canoeing, Rambabu got bronze medal in athletics, Ebad Ali got bronze medal in sailing, Khushboo Sepak Takra got bronze medal, Vandana Kataria got bronze medal in hockey.

Para Asian Games medal winners

Suhas LY Gold in Badminton, Praveen Kumar Gold in Athletics, Pradeep Kumar Silver in Athletics, Simran Silver in Athletics, Zainab Khatoon Silver in Powerlifting, Suraj Singh Silver in Archery, Ajit Singh Bronze in Athletics, Pushpendra Singh Bronze in Athletics, Shreyansh Trivedi Athletics. Got two bronze medals.