The Sports Ministry’s Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) has permitted financial assistance to 12 para-badminton gamers, together with Pramod Bhagat and Mansi Joshi, for their participation within the upcoming Brazil Para-Badminton International.
The event is a Level 2 occasion and a part of the Paris Paralympics pathway for 2023.
The funding has been cleared beneath ministry’s Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) and can cowl financial assistance to the gamers and their help workers.
The funding will cowl athletes’ and the help workers’s journey, visa, and insurance coverage prices, together with their boarding and lodging, their entry charges for the competitors and Out of Pocket Allowance (OPA) for different day by day financial wants.
The para shuttlers who’ve been granted assistance are Bhagat, Joshi, Krishna Nagar, Sukant Kadam, Nitesh Kumar, Manoj Sarkar, Suhas (*12*), Tarun Dhillon, Mandeep Kaur, Nithya Sre, Parul Parmar and Manisha Ramadass.
