Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami wished everyone a Happy Sports Day in a program organized on the occasion of National Sports Day at the Multipurpose Sports Building, Parade Ground Dehradun on Thursday and paid tribute to the magician of hockey by garlanding his picture. On this occasion, the Chief Minister presented cheques of Rs 50 lakh each to 4 players of Uttarakhand (Lakshya Sen, Paramjit Singh, Suraj Panwar, Ankita Dhyani) participating in the Paris Olympics 2024. On this occasion, the Chief Minister also inaugurated the website of the 38th National Games to be held in Uttarakhand. In the program, UKSRS portal has also been launched with the aim of allowing the players of the state to register themselves and record their achievements at one place. He distributed scholarships worth Rs 58.50 lakh to 3900 (1950 boys and 1950 girls) players under the Emerging Players Development Scheme through DBT. The Chief Minister also distributed prize money worth Rs 7 crore 4 lakh to 269 national, 58 international players and 65 coaches, thus a total of 392 people through DBT.
