India achieved a historic feat by securing 29 medals at Paralympics 2024, and the athletes will receive generous rewards.
Avani Lekhara, Sumit Antil, Nitesh Kumar, Harvinder Singh, Dharambir Nain, Praveen Kumar, and Navdeep Singh are all gold medal winners.Get 75 lakh rupees each.
Silver medalists will receive a prize of Rs 50 lakh, while bronze medalists will be awarded Rs 30 lakh.
Mixed team medal winners like archer Sheetal Devi will be awarded Rs 22.5 lakh.
Before, Manu Bhaker, who won a bronze medal at the 2024 Olympics, was given Rs 30 lakh by the Sports ministry.
Mixed team shooting medalist Sarabjot Singh was also awarded with Rs 22.5 lakh, just like Sheetal Devi.
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports appears to have chosen to provide equal rewards to both Olympics and Paralympics medalists.