{"id":5025,"date":"2017-09-16T11:28:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T11:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2017-09-16T11:28:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T11:28:52","slug":"top-athletes-to-get-monthly-stipend-of-rs-50000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/top-athletes-to-get-monthly-stipend-of-rs-50000\/","title":{"rendered":"TOP athletes to get monthly stipend of Rs 50,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi<\/p>\n<p>Elite athletes preparing for Tokyo Olympics, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games will receive a stipend of Rs 50,000 per month to meet their pocket expenses, Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Rathore\u2019s announcement meant that the Sports Ministry has accepted the recommendation of the Olympic Task Force, headed by Abhinav Bindra, in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>The government has selected 152 elite athletes under the Target Olympic Podium scheme. All the athletes will get benefit from this decision. The stipend will be paid with effect from September 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMYAS @IndiaSports announces Rs 50k\/month pocket allowance for 152 elite athletes preparing for Tokyo\/CWG\/Asian Games. Athletes first, always!\u201d Rathore wrote on the official Twitter handle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe allowance applies wef 1 Sep 2017 &amp;amp; is purely for pocket expenses of elite athletes. Committed to providing all resources to our champions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sports Ministry was getting in touch with all the athletes selected under the TOP scheme to get training and competition exposure plan and any further assistance required for preparation of the prestigious competitions.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi Elite athletes preparing for Tokyo Olympics, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games will receive a stipend of Rs 50,000 per month to meet their pocket expenses, Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore announced on Friday. Rathore\u2019s announcement meant that the Sports Ministry has accepted the recommendation of the Olympic Task Force, headed by Abhinav Bindra, in [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5025","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\/5025","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=5025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5027,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions\/5027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}