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The State Government will provide premium-free land to five outstanding sportspersons in Chandrasekharpur are of state capital Bhubaneswar. A decision to this effect was taken at the Cabinet meeting today, presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
The five sportspersons include hockey players Lazarus Barla, Prabodh Tirkey, Jyoti Suneet Kulu; athlete Rachita Mistry and weightlifter K Ravi Kumar. They will be given land measuring 60x40 feet each. The premium of Rs 16.53 lakhs for each of the plots was waived.
It was immediately known whether the Government will provide similar incentive to other eminent sportspersons as well. It is also known as to how many sportspersons and sports bodies have been given premium-free land earlier. No information to this effect was available in the websites of State General dministration Department of Sports and Youth Services Department.
One newspapger, however, pointed out that hockey Olympian and former India captain Ignace Tirkey, who is also the elder brother of Prabodh Tirkey, has been ignored by the Government.
