AP announces Rs 3 Cr. cash award, Group 1 Cadre Job to P V Sindhu

20 August, Vijayawada

Andhra Pradesh Cabinet has announced Rs.3 crore reward in cash, 1,000 square yards of house site in the new Capital City of Amaravathi and Group 1 cadre job to the Olympic Silver medalist P V Sindhu.

Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who chaired the Cabinet Meeting, told newspersons Saturday that the Cabinet lauded Sindhu for her great achievement of winning Silver medal in Olympics.

Naidu also announced that the government had decided to give Rs.50 lakh cash prize to Coach P Gopichand. “Ms.Sindu has brought laurels to the Telugu speaking states. Let us admire her success. Despite defeat in final, she fought well in the match” he said.

The Chief Minister also announced that three sports hubs would be established in Visakhapatnam, Amaravathi and in Tirupati in the state to produce best players. Mr.Naidu claimed that he had allocated land to Gopichand in Hyderabad for the setting up of badminton coaching centre during his regime in which P V Sindhu was trained that paid dividends now.

“If infrastructure is available in sports, our boys will do the best in sports. Had I not allocated the land, she could not have won the medal now” he also claimed and said that when he was the Chief Minister he tried to bring International reputed IMG to Hyderabad. If the IMG had set up its training centre, Sindhu could have won the Gold medal, he opined.

Naidu expressed his wish that new Capital city Amaravathi should be built to such a level that Olympic Games in future could be conducted there.