Sonepat,
\nPunjab Police won the 66th All-India Police Hockey Championship today, defeating BSF \u00073-0 in the final of the championship that concluded at the MNSS in Rai, Sonepat district.<\/p>\n
CRPF managed to get third place in the championship by defeating ITBP 6-3. A total of 24 hockey teams from different states and other police forces participated in \u0007the championship.<\/p>\n
Presiding over the prize distribution function, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said due to the sports promotion policies of the state government, Haryana was fast emerging as the sports hub of the country.<\/p>\n
He said besides opening sports nurseries in 500 schools, the government was also going to \u0007open sports gymnasium \u0007in 1,500 villages and appoint coaches in 500 villages in the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe government has fixed cash awards of Rs six crore, Rs four crore and Rs 2.50 crore for the winners of gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively in the Olympics,\u201d said Khattar, adding that even the Olympic participants were being given cash amount of Rs 15 lakh each.<\/p>\n
Claiming that Haryana was the first state in the country to open women police stations at district headquarters, he said there was 3 per cent reservation in government services \u0007for sportspersons.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reservation for women in police services has also been increased from six to eight per cent and there is a target \u0007to increase it to 30 per \u0007cent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Director General of Haryana Police (DGP) BS Sandhu and Director \u0007General of Madhuban Police Academy also \u0007listed the activities of \u0007the championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sonepat, Punjab Police won the 66th All-India Police Hockey Championship today, defeating BSF \u00073-0 in the final of the championship that concluded at the MNSS in Rai, Sonepat district. CRPF managed to get third place in the championship by defeating ITBP 6-3. A total of 24 hockey teams from different states and other police forces […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13297,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13295\/revisions\/13297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}