" The Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB), whose patron is Deora, will give Rs 10 lakh to every gold medalist, Rs 7.5 lakh to every silver medalist and Rs 5 lakh to every bronze medalist, an official statement said. India won a record 38 gold, 27 silver and 35 bronze medals to emerge second in the medals tally behind Australia.
"For their stellar performance, the Indian medal winners will get a total prize money of about Rs 9 crore," the statement said. The PSPB promotes some of the leading sports personalities of the country like Ronjan Sodhi (Shooting); Saina Naiwal, Chetan Anand, Jwala Gutta and V Diju (Badminton); Sharad Kamal, Soumyadeep Roy, Poulami Ghatak, Subojit Saha and A Amal Raj (Table Tennis).
In addition, Harvant Kaur (Discuss), Om Prakash (Shotput), Sinimone Paulose (800 metres); Chitra, Mandeep, Jauna Murmur and Tiana (4 x 400) ; Jagsir Singh (Javelin) and Rohan Boppana (Tennis) are affiliated to the PSPB. Nearly 50 sports persons affiliated to the PSPB represented India at the Games held here from October 3-14. PTI
