Celebrating Sheetal Devi’s outstanding expertise and willpower, the Kishtwar district administration led by Deputy Commissioner Devansh Yadav visited Sheetal’s household and prolonged a heat and heartfelt felicitation, the officers added.
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Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district on Sunday felicitated the household of armless archer Sheetal Devi – the first Indian woman to win two gold medals in a single version of the Asian Para Games, officers mentioned.
Sheetal clinched the ladies’s particular person compound gold on October 27 to add to the yellow steel she gained in the compound combined staff occasion the day past. It was a hat-trick of medals for the 16-year-old who holds her bow along with her foot. She had additionally gained a silver in the ladies’s doubles compound occasion.
Celebrating Sheetal Devi’s outstanding expertise and willpower, the Kishtwar district administration led by Deputy Commissioner Devansh Yadav visited Sheetal’s household and prolonged a heat and heartfelt felicitation, the officers added.
The gold medallist’s journey from her distant village of Loidhar in Kishtwar’s Mughal Maidan, the place she was born with out arms due to phocomelia syndrome, to worldwide recognition is a testomony to the indomitable energy of the human spirit.
The Indian Army observed her expertise throughout a camp in 2019 in the rugged mountains of her homeland and since then, Sheetal launched into a journey to make her mark on the worldwide stage. The Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board additionally supplied infrastructure for her coaching in Katra, the officers mentioned.
The Kishtwar DC visited Sheetal’s residence to meet her household and personally congratulate them on their daughter’s extraordinary achievement, the officers mentioned, including that he additionally introduced presents to the household as a token of appreciation.
During his go to, Yadav conveyed to the household that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha had prolonged their heat regards to the golden lady for bringing delight to the nation regardless of her congenital disabilities.
The DC assured Sheetal’s household of the required assist from the district administration.
The officers mentioned Sheetal has turn out to be an emblem of delight, not just for her district and the Union Territory but in addition for all the nation.
Sheetal’s unimaginable achievements function an inspiration to all and show that with willpower and assist, one can overcome any impediment to obtain greatness, they added.
Nearly 4,000 athletes from 43 nations are competing throughout 22 sports activities in 566 gold-medal occasions in the Hangzhou Asian Para Games that concluded on October 28. Indian para-athletes bagged 111 medals, the most important haul for the nation in any main worldwide multi-sport occasion.
