Chandigarh, February 18, 2017: The prestigious Bhim Award will be conferred upon 42 outstanding sportspersons of Haryana at a function to be organised at Haryana Raj Bhavan here on February 19. Each recipient of the Bhim Award would get Rs five lakh in cash, a memento, citation, blazer, tie and scarf. While stating this here today, Haryana Sports and Youth Affairs Minister, Anil Vij said that the State Government would give away the ‘Bhim Award’ to sports persons of the state who have exhibited outstanding performance in national and international competitions in the years 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17.
The Minister said that the sportspersons to be honoured for the year 2013-14 included Babita of Bhiwani and Ravinder Singh of Jhajjar for wrestling, Vikas Krishan of Bhiwani for boxing, Sandeep Kundu of Sonepat for taekwondo,Sandeep Kumar of Bhiwani for athletics, Sardar Singh of Sirsa for hockey, Praveen Kaur of Sirsa for roller skating, Rani Rampal of Kurukshetra for hockey, Deepa Malik and Dharam Singh of Sonepat for Para-Athletics.
Vij said that the sportspersons to be honoured for 2014-15 included Manoj Kumar of Jhajjar for wrestling, Pooja Rani of Bhiwani for boxing, Rajender Singh of Jind for Athletics, Shivani Kataria of Gurugram for aquatic swimming, Anuraj Singh of Faridabad for shooting, Gurmail Kaur of Jind for handball, Priyanka of Bhiwani for kabaddi, Jyoti of Sonepat for para-athletics and Arun of Karnal for special Olympics.
He said that those who would be honoured for the year 2015-16 included Vinesh Phogat of Bhiwani and Satyavrat Kadian of Rohtak for wrestling, Sweety of Hisar for boxing, Sangram Dahia of Sonepat for shooting, Sumit Sangwan of Karnal for boxing, Sonia of Jind for handball, Harpreet Kaur of Sirsa for roller skating,Surjit Kumar of Sonepat for kabaddi, Rakesh Pandey of Sonepat for badminton, Santosh of Bhiwani for athletics and Bhupender of Faridabad for Athletics.
He said that the sportspersons who would be honoured for 2016-17 included Ankur Mittal for shooting, Sakshi Malik for wrestling, Sandeep Kumar of Mahendragarh for Athletics, Saurav of Sonepat for taekwondo, Pankaj of Kurukshetra for cycling, Meena Kumari of Faridabad for shooting, Ritu of Jind for handball, Gauri Sheoran and Vishvajit of Panchkula for shooting, Jaideep of Rohtak for athletics and Ranbir Singh Saini of Gurugram for golf.
Additional Chief Secretary, Sports and Youth Affairs Department, Dr. K.K. Khandelwal and other senior officers of the Department were also present in the meeting held in this regard.