Chandigarh: Haryana boxers shined vibrant on the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation (IBA) Girls’s World Boxing Championship 2023 held in Delhi final month. With 4 golds in its kitty, India topped the medal tally.
Of the 4 gold medalists, Nitu Ghanghas (48 kg class) and Saweety Boora (81 kg class) are from Haryana. Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar handed the world champions provide letters for Group B posts within the sports activities and youth affairs division, and cheques price Rs 40 lakh every, final week.
Although it accounts for simply 2.1 per cent of India’s inhabitants (in accordance with the 2011 Census), Haryana is a powerhouse in Indian sports activities. Within the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the state contributed half of particular person medals with Neeraj Chopra’s gold, Ravi Kumar Dahiya’s silver and Bajrang Punia’s bronze.
The situation was no completely different on the 2016 Rio Olympics because the state accounted for half of India’s medals. Within the 2018 Asian and Commonwealth Video games (CWG), Haryana gamers contributed one-fourth and one-third of the whole medals, respectively.
However ever since Khattar got here to energy in 2014, his authorities has confronted flak from the Opposition for not honouring medal-winning sportspersons with “good jobs” and cash the way in which it was executed earlier. Now, these voices are rising shrill, particularly after the abolishing of the sports activities quota in Haryana Public Service Fee (HPSC) recruitment in February, at a time when meeting elections are only a 12 months away.
Haryana has made adjustments to its coverage for presidency jobs to medal-winning sportspersons 4 instances within the final 5 years. The CM holds cost of the sports activities division.
“The Congress authorities constructed an setting by creating infrastructure and honouring medal-winning gamers with jobs and money that motivated sportspersons to carry out higher in worldwide tournaments,” Chief of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda and former Haryana CM informed ThePrint.
He added: “It served a twin objective. The coverage was named ‘Padak Lao, Naukri Pao’. Whereas Punjab youth had been pushed in the direction of medication, these from Haryana channelled power in the direction of sports activities as a result of they knew a medal in a global occasion was the ticket to an excellent job and prize cash. However this authorities has distorted the coverage to the drawback of sportspersons.”
Hooda additional mentioned that he gave the publish of deputy superintendent of police (DSP) to gamers who introduced laurels to the nation via their efficiency.
“Amongst those that had been appointed DSPs had been Sandeep Singh, India hockey captain Sardar Singh, boxers Vijender Singh, Akhil Kumar and Jitender Kumar, CWG gold medalist and hockey star Mamta Kharab, T-20 World Cup winner Joginder Sharma, wrestlers Yogeshwar Dutt and Geetika Jakhar, and Everest climber Mamta Sodha. Nevertheless, this authorities has been providing jobs of lesser significance that don’t entice sportspersons,” he added.
The Congress chief mentioned he additionally gave land to cricketer Virender Sehwag for organising an academy.
Khattar’s media adviser Amit Arya informed ThePrint that ever for the reason that BJP authorities got here to energy, “excellent sportspersons have been getting jobs and money inside days of profitable medals”.
“Take the instance of Nitu Ghanghas and Saweety Boora who got job provides and Rs 40 lakh every inside three days of their medal-winning performances. Earlier, sportspersons needed to look ahead to a protracted interval. In the present day, the money awards being given to sportspersons are the very best on the planet.”
Requested concerning the Opposition’s allegations, Arya mentioned that the federal government was guaranteeing that sportspersons get jobs of their fields of experience.
A senior authorities official who was related to the method when the coverage was final amended in 2021, informed ThePrint on situation of anonymity that the federal government determined to eliminate its provide of Haryana Civil Companies (HCS) or Haryana Police Service (HPS) ports to excellent sportspersons due to “authorized points”.
He added that the Haryana Civil Companies (Government Department) Officers’ Affiliation had moved the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom on the bottom that sportspersons couldn’t be presumed to have the skillset wanted to carry out duties as an govt officer. In a February 2019 order, the Excessive Courtroom had requested Haryana to rethink the principles.
Talking to ThePrint, Director of the Division of Sports activities and Youth Affairs Pankaj Nain mentioned that as many as 19 sportspersons had been provided Group A jobs below the most recent 2021 coverage, out of which 15 have joined. Equally, Group B jobs had been provided to 41 sportspersons, of which 25 joined work whereas 139 out of 156 who had been provided Group C jobs have joined responsibility.
Group C job-holders have been accommodated in schooling, panchayat and police departments aside from the sports activities division, he added.
In its report tabled on the ground of the Haryana meeting in the course of the price range session final month, the Comptroller and Auditor Common (CAG) had discovered that Rs 41.30 crore in money awards had been granted to ineligible sportspersons from 2004-05 to 2015-16.
Final Thursday, Khattar at a overview assembly requested officers to make sure all amenities to sportspersons to spice up their efficiency at nationwide and worldwide occasions.
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Adjustments in sports activities coverage
In its coverage notified on 5 September 2018, the Khattar authorities went a step forward of what the erstwhile Hooda administration provided to sportspersons.
Gold medalists in Olympics and Paralympics Video games had been to be appointed within the Haryana Civil Companies (HCS) or Haryana Police Service (HPS) with a seniority of eight years. Equally, HCS or HPS posts with a seniority of 4 years had been assured for silver medalists, and HCS or HPS posts with out seniority for these profitable bronze.
For the World Cup medalists, the coverage provided HCS or HPS jobs with 4 years of seniority for gold, HCS or HPS with out seniority for silver, and Group A posts aside from HCS and HPS for bronze. As for workforce occasions, HCS or HPS jobs had been provided for gold, Group A jobs for silver and Group B jobs for bronze.
Equally, the coverage additionally talked about particulars of jobs to be provided to medal winners within the Asian Video games, Commonwealth Video games, and different sporting occasions, aside from the money awards.
One other notification was issued on 5 September 2019 that provided Rs 6 crore for profitable gold in Olympics or Paralympics, Rs 4 crore for silver, Rs 2.5 crore for bronze and Rs 15 lakh for participation. For Asian and Para Asian Video games, gold, silver and bronze medalists had been allotted Rs 3 crore, Rs 1.5 crore and Rs 75 lakh respectively. Money cash offered below the coverage is Rs 40 lakh for gold, Rs 30 lakh for silver and Rs 20 lakh for bronze in World Cups.
After making minor adjustments on 3 and 10 September 2019, the Haryana authorities made main amendments to the coverage via a notification issued on 26 February 2021, when it changed HCS or HPS posts for medal winners with Group A (deputy director), B (senior coach) and C (junior coach) posts within the sports activities and youth welfare division.
With the Haryana Excellent Sportspersons (Group A, B & C) Service Guidelines, 2021, overriding the Haryana Excellent Sportspersons (Recruitment and Situations of Service) Guidelines, 2018, sportspersons might now not get elite HPS and HCS posts.
Whereas Group A posts had been reserved for Asian and Olympic gold winners, Group B and C posts had been reserved for silver and bronze winners. For the World Cup and CWG winners, the coverage offered Group B jobs for gold and silver medalists and Group C job for bronze winners.
It was below this amended coverage that Nitu and Saweety had been handed Group B jobs and Rs 40 lakh every for his or her wins.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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