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Steel Minister felicitates SAIL sponsored CWG medal winners
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merisarkar news service
New Delhi, October 18, 2010 |
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Virbhadra Singh PK Mishra CS Verma with CWG Medalists
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Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh felicitated wrestler Sushil Kumar, who won the gold medal in the freestyle 66-kg category, wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt, who won gold in the 60-kg freestyle event, and shooter Deepak Sharma, who bagged a silver medal in the 50m air pistol competition, at the recently-concluded Commonwealth Games (CWG}, in a function organized at Udyog Bhawan on Tuesday.
Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), under the Ministry of Steel, had been providing financial support for the training and other requirements of all the three sportsmen.
Congratulating the three sportsmen on their superlative performance, Union Minister for Steel Virbhadra Singh announced cash rewards of Rs. 5 lakh each for the two gold medallists and Rs. 3 lakh for Deepak Sharma. In his address, Singh said: "It is matter of great satisfaction that these young sportsmen realised their aspiration of bringing honour and glory to India at the Games."
Speaking on the occasion, PK Mishra, Steel Secretary, stated that sport, by nature, promotes happiness, discipline and character. "It is therefore an important ingredient for development of society and companies. We hope that SAIL will strengthen its sport academies so that future winners can be nurtured there. We also hope that SAIL will increase support to budding talent, especially among the tribals in India," he said.
SAIL Chairman C.S. Verma, too, congratulated the medal winners and said that they have honoured SAIL's conviction about their capabilities and prowess for bringing glory to the nation.
Mr. Verma also spoke about the company's commitment to promotion of sporting talent, right since inception, which has found real expression through the sports academies set up by SAIL in its plant locations. Several cadets from SAIL sports academies for hockey, football, athletics and archery have made the nation proud. Cadets in these academies are provided sophisticated training by former sportspersons of national repute.
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