The Gujarat authorities on Sunday introduced a reward of Rs 3 crore for paddler Bhavna Patel, who received the historic silver medal on the Tokyo Paralympic Games.
Patel, who hails from Sundhia village in Gujarat’s Mehsana district, received a silver medal in her first Paralympic Games on Sunday after dropping 0-3 to world primary Chinese paddler Ying Zhou.
“Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has congratulated Bhavna Patel, daughter of Mehsana district of Gujarat, for making the country proud by her outstanding achievements in Table Tennis at the Paralympic Games,” the Chief Minister’s Office stated in a notice.
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It stated that the Chief Minister has introduced an award of Rs 3 crore to Patel below the state authorities’s ‘Divyang Khel Pratibha Protsahan Puraskar Yojana’ as an incentive to Patel to make Gujarat and India proud together with his sportsmanship on the international stage. .
Patel, who contracted polio on the age of 12 months, defeated world quantity three Miao Zhang of China 7-11 11-7 11-4 11th of September 11-8 in a semi-final on Saturday.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
