BAI declares money awards to CWG, World Championships winners

Badminton Affiliation of India (BAI) introduced money incentives to Indian shuttlers Lakshya Sen, P.V. Sindhu, R. Satwiksairaj and Chirag Shetty for his or her stupendous efficiency within the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Video games.

Lakshya Sen and P.V. Sindhu will likely be awarded Rs. 20 Lakh whereas the lads’s doubles mixture of R. Satwiksairaj and Chirag Shetty have been awarded Rs. 25 Lakh for successful the gold medal.

It could be talked about that the Indian shuttlers got here with one of the best exhibiting within the CWG successful three gold, one silver and two whereas the Indian males’s shuttlers have three medals to point out from the 2 editions of the world championships.

“Our badminton gamers have been constantly successful laurels for the nation and this money award is a small effort to acknowledge their superb achievements over the past two years,” stated BAI president Himanta Biswa Sarma in a press release.

The ten-member blended crew, which received the silver medal in Birmingham will get a complete of Rs. 30 lakhs, or Rs. 3 lakh every, for his or her efforts, whereas the eight members of the help employees get Rs. 1.5 lakh every.

Other than the gold medallists, the younger girls’s doubles mixture of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly will take dwelling Rs 7.5 lakh for his or her maiden bronze medal-winning effort.

Former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth may even get Rs. 5 lakh for his males’s singles bronze in Birmingham together with Rs. 10 lakh for his silver medal-winning effort on the 2021 BWF World Championships in Huelva, Spain.

Lakshya Sen would add Rs 5 lakh to his kitty for bagging the lads’s singles bronze in 2021 whereas Shetty and Satwik will get one other Rs 7.5 lakh for turning into the primary Indian males’s doubles pair to clinch a world championships bronze in Tokyo final month.