BCCI chief sanctions cash award for Bindra
Posted on Aug 11, 2008 at 14:01 | Updated Aug 11, 2008 at 16:30
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Mumbai: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) joins the country in celebrating Abhinav Bindra's feat at the Beijing Olympics.
Sharad Pawar, the BCCI President, has announced a cash award of Rs 25 lakhs to Abhinav Bindra.
"Hearty congratulations to Abhinav Bindra for winning India's first-ever individual gold medal at the Olympics. He has done the country proud. His achievement heralds a new era for Indian sport," Pawar said in a release on Monday.
The BCCI has got together with the Ministry of Sports to set up a corpus of Rs 50 crores to support the country's medal prospects, in the disciplines of Swimming, Boxing, Archery, Judo and Wrestling, for the next three years, upto the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
This venture apart, the BCCI has been funding Aditya Jagtap (Squash) and Karan Rastogi (Tennis), as far as their training and participation in international events are concerned.
Incidentally, the BCCI had approved a proposal to support Abhinav Bindra on similar lines, and was in correspondence with him in this regard.
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