New Delhi [India], September 6 (ANI): Badminton Association of India’s (BAI) steady endeavour to reward top-quality efficiency will see the affiliation disburse near Rs 1.5 crore to gamers and help employees.
BAI, which had awarded a kitty of Rs 1 crore to the Thomas Cup successful squad earlier this 12 months, introduced the bonanza for the 2022 Commonwealth Games medalists, and 2021 and 2022 World Championships medalists.
The Indian contingent got here dwelling with a best-ever exhibiting from the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, bagging three gold, one silver and two bronze medals whereas the Indian males’s shuttlers have three medals to point out from the 2 editions of the world championships.
“Our Badminton players have been consistently winning laurels for the country and this cash award is a small effort to acknowledge their amazing achievements over the last two years,” stated BAI president Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma whereas asserting the prize cash.
The 10-member blended staff, which gained the silver medal in Birmingham will get a complete of Rs 30 lakh, or Rs 3 lakh every, for his or her effort whereas the eight members of the help employees with get Rs 1.5 lakh every.
Commonwealth Games males’s and ladies’s singles champions Lakshya Sen and PV Sindhu would take dwelling Rs 20 lakh every whereas the boys’s doubles mixture of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy will probably be rewarded with Rs 25 lakh for bagging the historic gold in Birmingham.
“The way the Indian players have been performing at the world stage has meant that the prize purse has been increasing consistently and we are confident that the reward money would motivate everyone to continue the good work,” stated BAI Secretary Sanjay Mishra.Apart from the gold medalists, the younger Women’s doubles mixture of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly will take dwelling Rs 7.5 lakh for his or her maiden bronze medal-winning effort.
Former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth will even get Rs 5 lakh for his males’s singles bronze in Birmingham together with Rs 10 lakh for his silver medal-winning effort on the 2021 BWF World Championships in Huelva, Spain.
Lakshya Sen would add Rs 5 lakh to his kitty for bagging the boys’s singles bronze in 2021 whereas Shetty and Satwik will get one other Rs 7.5 lakh for changing into the primary Indian males’s doubles pair to clinch a world championships bronze in Tokyo final month.
BAI plans to proceed to encourage the gamers for his or her tremendous sequence performances too. (ANI)