{"id":22524,"date":"2021-06-23T22:13:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T16:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=115434"},"modified":"2021-06-23T22:13:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T16:43:28","slug":"tokyo-olympics-haryana-will-give-%e2%82%b96-crores-to-the-gold-medal-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/olympics\/tokyo-olympics-haryana-will-give-%e2%82%b96-crores-to-the-gold-medal-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics: Haryana will give \u20b96 crores to the Gold medal winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Haryana government announced on Wednesday that athletes from the state who win a gold medal in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics will be awarded a monetary prize of Rs 6 crores.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">The state government will award the silver medalists with an amount of Rs. 4 crores, while the bronze medalists will receive Rs. 2.50 crore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sandeep Singh, the state sports minister, announced during an interaction with Olympic medalists on the occasion of International Olympic Day in Haryana.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Sandeep also said that each of the 30 athletes competing in the forthcoming Tokyo Olympics will have a training budget of Rs. 5 lakh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to a state government release, the chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar said medal winners in international competitions will be granted government positions to encourage young people to participate in sports. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">International level medal winners, according to Khattar, will be hired on a deputation basis in the Education and other departments, in addition to government employment in the Sports Department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He mentioned that the government has a policy in place to encourage people to participate in sports.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Along with the 3 per cent reserve, government employment is distributed based on the medals earned by athletes, according to the announcement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Aside from that, the government was improving infrastructure and renovating stadiums to promote sports in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Haryana government announced on Wednesday that athletes from the state who win a gold medal in the upcoming Tokyo\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":42711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1080,525,493,1526,389,638],"class_list":["post-22524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","tag-gold-medalist","tag-haryana","tag-japan","tag-olympics","tag-sports","tag-tokyo-olympics"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}