Srinivas Goud felicitates Sania Mirza’s father Imran Mirza

The Minister along with Sports Authority of Telangana State (SATS) chairman A Venkateshwar Reddy presented a cheque of Rs. 5 lakh to Imran Mirza.

Hyderabad: Tourism and Sports Minister V Srinivas Goud felicitated tennis ace Sania Mirza’s father Imran Mirza as the tennis ace will be representing India at Tokyo Olympics.

The Minister along with Sports Authority of Telangana State (SATS) chairman A Venkateshwar Reddy presented a cheque of Rs. 5 lakh to Imran Mirza as an incentive from State sports to Sania Mirza for participating in the Olympics.

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After formation of Telangana, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has been sanctioning funds for sports infra development and support to sports persons. Since formation of the State, the Chief Minister has Rs. 25.87 crore to different sports persons as incentives, the Minister said.

The Chief Minister has constituted a cabinet sub committee for transforming Telangana into sports hub. The Committee will be framing a sports policy, sports development and provision of infrastructure. Efforts were on to come up with a best sports policy in the country, he said.

As per Industries Minister KT Rama Rao’s directions several corporate companies were extending support in sports infra development and promotion of sports under their corporate social responsibility programmes, he said.

The State Government was extending Rs. 2 crore cash incentive for sports persons bagging gold in Olympics. This much higher than the Rs. 50,000 cash incentive awarded in United Andhra Pradesh, he pointed out.

For silver medal, the cash incentive was increased from Rs. 25 lakh to Rs. 1 crore and bronze medal it was revised from Rs. 10 to Rs. 50 lakh, he informed.

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