Big prize money for Paralympics medal winners also: Maken

India's Para athlete Girisha H Nagarajegowda will be honoured with Rs. 30 lakh cash award for winning a silver medal at the ongoing London Paralympics Games, sports minister Ajay Maken said today.

India's Para athlete Girisha H Nagarajegowda will be honoured with Rs. 30 lakh cash award for winning a silver medal at the ongoing London Paralympics Games, sports minister Ajay Maken said on Tuesday.

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Girisha gave India its first medal at the Paralympic Games after finishing second in the Men's High Jump F42 event.

Maken said all the medal winners at the Paralympics will be given the same amount of reward money, which was disbursed to the achievers at the Olympics Games.

"Paralympic Medal Winners also to get cash awards of same amount as Olympics. Rs 50 lacs Gold,30 Silver and 20 Bronze. Nagaraj gets 30 lacs!," Maken tweeted on Tuesday.

India had won six medals at the Olympics with wrestler Suhil Kumar and pistol shooter Vijay Kumar winning the silver medals.

Four others -- Saina Nehwal, Yogeshwar Dutt, Gagan Narang and MC Mary Kom -- won bronze medals.