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Accolades pour in

By Our Sports Reporter

NEW DELHI AUG. 6. Accolades poured in from various quarters as soon as the Indian contingent from Manchester Commonwealth Games arrived here to a tumultuous welcome.

While the Sports Minister, Uma Bharti, announced hefty cash incentives for the medal winners, hours before the team touched down at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, it was Indian Railways which delivered the first.

Railways, the biggest employers and promoters of sportspersons from different fields, got up a simple ceremony on Tuesday and handed over cheques to each medal winners who were employed with it.

For the stupendous show by Indian women's hockey team, it received Rs. 15 lakh, Rs. one lakh to each team member. The Indian team is practically the Indian Railways team to the last player.

The other gold medal winners at Manchester, light-fly boxer Mohammed Ali Qamar, shooter Suma Shirur and wrestler Ramesh Kumar, were given Rs. two lakh each.

The silver medallists were given Rs. 1.5 lakh each and bronze winners Rs. one lakh.

Besides this, the Railways Minister, Nitish Kumar, announced out of turn promotions and increments for the medal winners.

The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) felicitated its famous-but-new recruit, Jaspal Rana. The pistol shooter returned from the Commonwealth Games winning four gold, one silver and one bronze medal.

The Chairman and Managing Director of ONGC, Subir Raha, congratulated Rana on his achievement and hoped he would bring more glory to the country in the coming years.

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) had a special reason to be proud of. Its ace rifle shooter, Anjali Bhagwat, not only won four gold medals she was chosen to carry the Indian flag at the Games.

It was an homely atmosphere at the CISF Headquarters where Anjali and pistol shooter Samresh Jung were congratulated by the Director General, H.J. Dora.

Jung, who won two gold and three silver medals, and Anjali mingled with their colleagues and shared their experiences.

Mr. Dora said that shooting would remain a thrust area for the CISF. To achieve that, the para-military force has decided to put in place a state-of-the-art shooting range in Hyderabad at the cost of Rs. five crore.

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