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promoting sports. The prize money will include Rs. 5 lakh, memento, blazer and certificate.
The Sports Minister said that Balbir Singh Senior Scholarship Scheme has been started for the first time to give monthly scholarship to the medal winners at the National level. Under this scheme, a scholarship of Rs. 16,000 will be given to the National Medalist at the senior level and a scholarship of Rs. 12,000 to the National Medalist at the junior level.
Meet Hayer further said that the Chief Minister decided to formulate a new sports policy after seeing the changes in sporting scenario in the past and many shortcomings in the previous sports policies. A committee of experts was formed by the sports department to formulate a new policy. Apart from Hockey Olympian Surinder Singh Sodhi and former DGP Rajdeep Singh Gill, NIS, SAI, Higher and School Education representatives were included in the committee. Suggestions were taken from the Punjab Para Sports Association and general public.
