{"id":65308,"date":"2019-07-05T12:35:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T12:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=65308"},"modified":"2019-07-05T12:35:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T12:35:50","slug":"chief-minister-to-honour-93-players-with-maharaja-ranjit-singh-award-on-9th-july-rana-sodhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/chief-minister-to-honour-93-players-with-maharaja-ranjit-singh-award-on-9th-july-rana-sodhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Minister to honour 93 players with \u2018Maharaja Ranjit Singh Award\u2019 on 9th July: Rana Sodhi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>81 players for achievements from 2011-2018 &amp; 12 veteran players to get award<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chandigarh<br>\u201cThe\n Chief Minister, Punjab, Captain Amarinder Singh would honour 93 players\n excelling at the National and International level on 9th of July with \nthe \u2018Maharaja Ranjit Singh Award\u2019. Every player receiving the award \nwould get Rs. 2 lakh cash, Trophy of Maharaja Ranjit Singh Ji in armour \natop a steed, Blazer and a Scroll.\u201d This was disclosed here today by the\n Sports and Youth Affairs Minister, Punjab, Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi in a\n press communiqu\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Divulging more, Rana Sodhi said that the \nPunjab Government is fully committed to uplift the standard of sports \nand encourage the players under which the Maharaja Ranjit Singh Awards \npending since 7 years, would be given to the players of State. A total \nof 81 players excelling in the sporting arena from 2011-2018 have been \nselected for the award besides 12 other veteran players who have already\n been felicitated by the Union Government. The minister further said \nthat in a major shift in the Sports Policy, It has been decided that the\n player from Punjab honoured with Padma Awards or Rajiv Gandhi Khel \nRatna Award or Arjuna Award, would automatically get selected for \nMaharaja Ranjit Singh Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Detailing more, the minister said \nthat 15 players for sporting achievements in 2011, 14 players for 2012, 5\n players for 2013, 5 players each for 2014 &amp; 2015, 15 players for \n2016, 7 players for 2017 and 10 players for 2018 have been chosen for \nthe award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is worth noting that Maharaja Ranjit Singh Awards \nwere instituted in the year 1978 and 305 players have been honoured with\n it until 2010. It is also worth mentioning that the present Sports \nMinister of Punjab, Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi, A shooter of International \nrepute, was conferred the award in 1978 itself.\n\n<\/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>81 players for achievements from 2011-2018 &amp; 12 veteran players to get award Chandigarh\u201cThe Chief Minister, Punjab, Captain Amarinder Singh would honour 93 players excelling at the National and International level on 9th of July with the \u2018Maharaja Ranjit Singh Award\u2019. Every player receiving the award would get Rs. 2 lakh cash, Trophy of Maharaja [&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":65309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65308","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\/65308","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=65308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65310,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65308\/revisions\/65310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}