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Taking an early lead, the Chandigarh Sports Department have distributed the cash awards to the medal winners of the 4th Kehlo India Youth Games held in Panchkula last month.
Khelo India is the Government of India's flagship multi-discipline sports event.
Chandigarh is most likely the first among the States and Union Territories to disburse the cash incentives to their respective medal winners of the Khelo India Games.
On the lines of the Haryana's sports policy of cash incentives for the medal winners, the Chandigarh Sports Department gave a cash award of Rs 50,000, Rs 30,000 and Rs 20,000 to the gold, silver and bronze medal winners, respectively.
The Chandigarh contingent won 16 medals, including five gold and four silver.
Chandigarh finished overall 13th among the 36 States and UTs, improving its position by three places as compared to previous edition of the games held in Guwahati. And before that Chandigarh finished at 21st position.
The maximum contribution for Chandigarh in Panchkula edition of the Khelo India Youth Games came from boxing and indigenous sport of gataka.
The city sportspersons bagged two gold, one silver and two bronze medals in boxing, while clinched two gold, as many silver and a bronze medal in gataka.
In wrestling, Chandigarh got a gold and a bronze, while won one silver and a bronze in judo, and a bronze each in cycling and weightlifting.
Chandigarh Advisor Dharampal was the chief guest on the occasion. UT Sports Secretary Sarpreet Singh, Director Sports Teejdeep Saini, Chairman Administrator's Advisory Committee on Sports Sanjay Tandon, Director Public Relations Rajiv Tiwari and Joint Director Sports Sunil Rayat were also present.
Medal winners-
Boxing - Ankit, Achalveer (gold), Ashish Hooda (silver), Renu, Kavi (bronze).
Gataka - Ravleen Kaur, team of Ravleen, Arshdeep Kaur and Gurnoor Kaur (gold), Arshdeep Kaur, team of Gurcharan Singh, Jeevanjot Singh and Tej Pratap Singh Jassar (silver), Tej Pratap Singh Jassar (bronze).
Cycling - Reet Kapoor (bronze).
Wrestling - Yashveer Singh Malik (gold), Bobby Cahar (bronze).
Judo - Himanshu (silver), Fardeen (bronze).
Weightlifting - Paramvir Singh (bronze).