Tuesday, September 13, 2011

General News

The Sports Ministry sanctioned Rs 6.85 crore financial assistance for 22 athletes considering medal prospects in next year's London Olympics.

Ronjan Sodhi - Rs 97.37 lakh
Former shooting World Champion Manavjit Singh Sandhu - 91.95 lakh
Mansher Singh - Rs 47.25 lakh
Discus thrower Krishna Poonia - Rs 24.20 lakh
Vikas Gowda - Rs 24.51 lakh
Shot putter Om Prakash Karhana - Rs 48.10 lakh
Sania Mirza, Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi, Rohan Bopanna, Yuki Bhambri and Sanam Singh - Rs 36.96 lakh each
Somdev Devvarman - Rs 39.60 lakh
The Indian men's gymnastic players -- Ashish Kumar, Rakesh Patra, Alok Ranajan and Iqrar Hasan (a collective amount ) - 56.83 lakh
The women's team - Dipa Karmarkar, B Aruna, Rucha Divekar, Roma Jogalekar and Meenakshi - Rs 33.08 lakh

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