Felicitating medal winners, participants and support staff from the Armed forces, who took part in the recently concluded 19th Asian Games at Hangzhou, China, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday announced cash prizes to military personnel who won medals. As per this, gold medal winners will get ₹25 lakh, ₹15 lakh for silver medal and ₹10 lakh for Bronze medal.
Mr. Singh interacted with a total of 76 players and staff, who attended the event in New Delhi, and congratulated them for their excellent display at the Games, a Defence Ministry statement said. In all Service personnel bagged 16 individual medals — three Gold, six Silver and seven Bronze and eight team medals, which includes two Gold, three Silver and three Bronze.
