Wrestler Bajrang Punia, Paralympian Amit Saroha obtain monetary help

The Sports Ministry’s Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) has authorized a monetary help of Rs 6.16 lakh for Tokyo Games bronze medallist Bajrang Punia for the 18-day particular coaching camp he undertook in Iran.

Bajrang was accompanied by his coach Sujeet Mann.

He is now set to be in motion within the choice trials on March 24 on the KD Jadhav Wrestling Indoor Stadium within the nationwide capital.

Bajrang, who will compete within the 65kg class, is seeking to register his identify for the Indian senior freestyle and greco roman model wrestling groups that can compete on the forthcoming Senior Asian Wrestling Championship in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia from April 24.

He additionally has his eyes set on the Commonwealth Games this August and the Asian Games after that.

“Whatever tournament comes until Paris, I’m going to give my best performance and my aim is to change the colour of my medal in Paris 2024,” stated Bajrang.

Similarly, the SAI Training Centre in Lucknow too will conduct the choice trials for the Indian senior girls’s wrestling groups on March 25 to select the group for the Mongolia occasion in April.

The MOC, in the meantime, has additionally authorized a monetary help of Rs 2.45 lakh for para athlete (membership throw F51) Amit Saroha, underneath the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) for the charges in direction of his private physiotherapist Ankit Rahodia from March 2022 to this 12 months’s Para Asian Games.

Amit is an Arjuna Award winner. Both Bajrang and him are part of the TOPS core group.