Increase in cash incentives to outstanding athletes
The Delhi Cabinet on Tuesday approved an increase of at least three times in cash incentive to outstanding sportspersons from the national capital for their achievements in Olympics, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games including Para Games, officials said. The revised amount of cash incentive in all categories will be applicable for tournaments held after April 1, 2018.
Gold medal winners in Olympic Games and Paralympic Games currently get ` 1 crore. The amount has been increased to ` 3 crore. Silver medal winners, who used to get ` 50 lakh and ` 30 lakh, will now get ` 2 crore and ` 1 crore respectively.
The amount of cash incentive for gold medal winners in Asian Games ( ASIAD) and Para- Asian Games has been increased from ` 20 lakh to ` 1 crore. The incentive for silver and bronze medal winners ◗ ◗ ◗ has been increased from ` 14 lakh to ` 75 lakh and ` 10 lakh to ` 50 lakh respectively.
Commonwealth Games gold medal winners and Commonwealth Games for para athletes gold medallists will get an amount of ` 50 lakh rather than ` 14 lakh. The silver medal winners will get ` 40 lakh instead of ` 10 lakh and bronze medal winners will get ` 30 lakh instead of ` 6 lakh.
“During the last threefour years, sportspersons of Delhi have excelled in many games. They have shown extraordinary performance in recently- concluded Commonwealth Games 2018 and different international and national tournaments,” an official statement said.
The Cabinet also gave its approval and expenditure sanction for the construction of building and related infrastructure facilities for Stage I of Delhi Technological UniversityPhase II at an estimated cost of ` 291.88 crore.
It also approved the sanction of additional funds of ` 70 crore to be given to IIIT- Delhi as interest free loan due to increase in cost of construction.
Gold medal winners in Olympic Games and Paralympic Games to get 3 crore from the previously set 1 crore amount The amount of cash incentive for gold medal winners in Asian and Para- Asian Games has been increased from 20L to C’wealth Games gold medallists to get 50 lakh rather than 14 lakh
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