{"id":302064,"date":"2018-09-02T06:38:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T06:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302064"},"modified":"2018-09-02T06:38:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T06:38:52","slug":"odisha-cm-announces-1-crore-cash-reward-each-for-four-women-hockey-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/odisha-cm-announces-1-crore-cash-reward-each-for-four-women-hockey-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Odisha CM announces 1 crore cash reward each for four women hockey players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302065 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/women-hockey-players-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/women-hockey-players-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/women-hockey-players-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/women-hockey-players-1024x597.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/women-hockey-players-696x406.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/women-hockey-players-1068x623.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/women-hockey-players-720x420.jpg 720w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/women-hockey-players.jpg 1127w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/>Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday, announced Rs 1 crore cash reward each for four hockey players from the State, who played in Indian women\u2019s team that clinched silver for the country in Asian Games 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The four hockey players Sunita Lakra, Namita Toppo, Lilima Minz and Deep Grace Ekka who were part of the Indian women\u2019s hockey team will receive Rs 1 crore each.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The coach will get an award equivalent to twenty percent of the rewards of the Asian Games medal winners, said an official statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">CM Naveen Patnaik took to his twitter account and congratulated the team for winning the silver medal. \u201cWell played, Team India!Congratulate our Women&#8217;s Hockey Team on ending theircampaign with a Silver, 20 years after India played the last\u00a0# AsianGames final. Proud of what you have all achieved and best wishes for future\u201d, tweeted Patnaik.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After a gap of twenty years, the women\u2019s team played in the final of the Asian Games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Odisha is the sponsor of the Indian National Hockey team. The State has always promoted hockey and will soon host the\u00a0World Men\u2019s Hockey Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday, announced Rs 1 crore cash reward each for four hockey players from the State, who played in Indian women\u2019s team that clinched silver for the country in Asian Games 2018. The four hockey players Sunita Lakra, Namita Toppo, Lilima Minz and Deep Grace Ekka who were part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2916,2014],"tags":[4574,4397,4579,4575,4578,4577,4580,2174,4576],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302066,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302064\/revisions\/302066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}