GANGTOK, 29 July [IPR]: The North Eastern Council Secretariat has announced cash award of Rs. 40.00 lakhs, Rs. 20.00 lakhs and Rs. 10.00 lakhs respectively for the Gold, Silver and Bronze Medalists of the Olympic Games as a part of its never ending endeavor in promoting Sports in the Region as per information received from Smt. Sherry Lalthangzo, Director (HRD&E).
It had, in the past, given out Rs. 10.00 lakhs, Rs. 5.00 lakhs and Rs. 3.00 lakhs for the Gold, Silver and Bronze Medalists respectively of the Asian and Common Wealth Games and Rs.3.00 lakhs, Rs. 2.00 lakhs and Rs. 1.00 lakh for the Gold, Silver and Bronze Medalists of the Jarkhand National Games under the scheme “North Eastern Council Chairman’s Sports Award for Excellence”.
For the Jarkhand National Games, altogether Rs. 7.82 crores was given out to all the Medal winners of the North Eastern States during the 61st Plenary Meet of the NEC recently held in New Delhi. Cash award was given to the outstanding sport persons from all the North Eastern States for the Jharkhand Games – Arunachal Pradesh Rs. 21.00 lakhs, Assam Rs. 146.00 lakhs, Manipur Rs. 556.00 lakhs, Meghalaya Rs. 10.00 lakhs, Mizoram Rs. 11.00 lakhs, Nagaland Rs. 18.00 lakhs, Tripura Rs, 15.00 lakhs and Sikkim Rs. 5.00 lakhs.
