With a view to promoting sports, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today announced the state’s employment guarantee policy to ensure a secure future for outstanding sportspersons.
The policy includes offer of employment in government departments, boards and corporations, reservation of seats for admission to professional or technical institutes and universities and the setting up of a Haryana sports development fund.
The Chief Minister said under this policy, besides jobs in the police,
the sportspersons would now be offered employment in government departments, boards and corporations on the basis of their achievements.
Hooda explained that the medal winners of Olympic Games and gold medal winners of Asian Games would be offered posts of class-II gazetted officer while silver and bronze medal winners of Asian Games and gold and silver medal winners of Commonwealth Games and gold medal winners of world championships organised by sports federations would be offered class-III posts.
Besides, suitable employment opportunities would be offered to the participants of world championships organised by sports federations and medal winners of Asian championships.
“As many 3 per cent seats would be reserved for sportspersons in professional or technical institutes and universities from the year 2011-12. A “Haryana sports development fund” with a corpus of Rs 5 crore would be set up to provide financial assistance,” he added.
The annual Bhim Puraskar would be conferred upon three sportspersons of individual games and two sportspersons of team games and one to a para-Olympic player, he maintained.
Hooda said Haryana was the first state in the country to give the maximum cash award to medal winners of Commonwealth Games and Asian Games. In the case of Commonwealth Games, the gold, silver and bronze medal winner were given Rs 15 lakh, Rs 10 lakh and Rs 5 lakh, respectively. Similarly, in the case of Asian Games, the gold, silver and bronze medal winners were awarded Rs 25 lakh, Rs 15 lakh and Rs 10 lakh, respectively. Also, funds were given for development of native villages of medal winners of Asian and Commonwealth Games. The villages of gold, silver and bronze medal winners were given Rs 51 lakh, Rs 31 lakh and Rs 21 lakh, respectively.
“As many as 37 sportspersons have been offered jobs in the Police Department. While posts of DSP have been offered to five sports persons, 18 of them have been offered employment as Inspectors and 14 as Sub-Inspectors,” Hooda said.
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