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BCCI rewards Beijing Olympics heroes
Mumbai, Aug 23 (PTI) The Cricket Board Saturday decided to reward shooter Abhinav Bindra, the country's first-ever individual gold medallist in Olympic Games, and bronze medal winners -- grappler Sushil Kumar and pugilist Vijender Kumar -- with cash prizes totalling Rs 45 lakh.
Bindra, who won the 10-metre air rifle gold on August 11 to provide the medal-starved nation its first yellow metal in 108 years of the modern Games, would be given Rs 25 lakh while wrestler Sushil Kumar (bronze in 66 kg freestyle) and boxer Vijender Kumar (bronze in 75 kg class) would get Rs 10 lakheach.
The decision to reward the Indian Olympics medallists in the Beijing Games, which is set to close Sunday, was taken at the BCCI's Working Committee meeting here chaired by itspresident Sharad Pawar.
The all-powerful Working Committee also decided that the cash-rich Board, which has set up a National Sports Development Fund (NSDF) with a corpus of Rs 50 crore, will double its contribution to the Fund from Rs 25 crore to Rs 50crore for the next three years.
Among other important decisions taken at the one-day sitting was the amount of remuneration for the members of the men's senior and junior selection committees as well as thewomen's selection committee.
The men's senior selectors would get an honorarium of Rs 25 lakh per annum, the junior selectors Rs 15 lakh and thewomen selectors Rs 5 lakh.
Bindra, who won the 10-metre air rifle gold on August 11 to provide the medal-starved nation its first yellow metal in 108 years of the modern Games, would be given Rs 25 lakh while wrestler Sushil Kumar (bronze in 66 kg freestyle) and boxer Vijender Kumar (bronze in 75 kg class) would get Rs 10 lakheach.
The decision to reward the Indian Olympics medallists in the Beijing Games, which is set to close Sunday, was taken at the BCCI's Working Committee meeting here chaired by itspresident Sharad Pawar.
The all-powerful Working Committee also decided that the cash-rich Board, which has set up a National Sports Development Fund (NSDF) with a corpus of Rs 50 crore, will double its contribution to the Fund from Rs 25 crore to Rs 50crore for the next three years.
Among other important decisions taken at the one-day sitting was the amount of remuneration for the members of the men's senior and junior selection committees as well as thewomen's selection committee.
The men's senior selectors would get an honorarium of Rs 25 lakh per annum, the junior selectors Rs 15 lakh and thewomen selectors Rs 5 lakh.
