Amarinder Singh stated roads and faculties will likely be named after the Oympic heroes from Punjab.
Chandigarh:
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh honoured Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra and different Tokyo Video games stars from Punjab at a grand ceremony in Chandigarh on Thursday and invited them to dinner, promising to prepare dinner for them himself.
“I’m not too keen on consuming however I do like cooking fairly a bit. I’ll prepare dinner for all of you… All medallists can even be provided jobs by the Punjab authorities. We could have faculties and roads named after you,” he stated.
Blissful to satisfy our Olympic superstars through the felicitation ceremony this night. Have promised them that I’ll prepare dinner for them and can host them for dinner quickly. India is happy with all of them. ???????? pic.twitter.com/UoVxKpEZr6
— Capt.Amarinder Singh (@capt_amarinder) August 12, 2021
The Olympic Video games medal winners and members from Punjab had been felicitated with money awards value over Rs 32 crore by the Chief Minister, in keeping with information company PTI.
Neeraj Chopra, who’s from Haryana however has roots in Punjab, was introduced with a money reward of Rs 2.51 crore, up from an earlier announcement of Rs 2 crore.
Money rewards for 11 gamers from the state, who had been a part of the Indian hockey workforce which received the bronze medal after 41 years, was additionally elevated from Rs 1 crore to Rs 2.51 crore every, Punjab Sports activities Minister Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi stated.
Led by Manpreet Singh, the Indian hockey workforce has various gamers from the state together with vice-captain Harmanpreet Singh, Rupinder Pal Singh, Simranjit Singh, Mandeep Singh, Gurjant Singh, Shamsher Singh, Varun Kumar, Dilpreet Singh, Hardik Singh and Krishan Pathak.
Mr Sodhi stated the members of the Indian ladies’s hockey workforce, which completed fourth, from the state – Reena Khokhar and Gurjit Kaur – and discus thrower Kamalpreet Kaur, who took the sixth place, got Rs 50 lakh every.
Boxer Simranjit Kaur, shooters Anjum Moudgill and Angadveer Singh, athletes Tejinder Pal Singh Toor and Gurpreet Singh and paralympic badminton participant Palak Kohli got Rs 21 lakh every.
(With inputs from PTI)
