State Bank of India on Friday announced a cash award of Rs five lakh for the Indian hockey team which recently won the Asia Cup tournament.
SBI Chairman OP Bhat on Friday announced the sop for the hockey players who were sulking after India’s Twenty20 World Cup winning cricketers were showered with cash prizes. “We have decided to give them a small token of appreciation to the hockey team,” Bhat said. The decision was taken in Friday’s Board meeting.
“This is not something great we have done to the Indian team. What we have done is to show how much we care for Indian hockey,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Maharashtra Government also swung into action, announcing a cash prize of Rs five lakh each to hockey players from the state and their coach Joaquim Carvalho.
Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said Adrian Dsouza, Sivendra Singh, Gurbaz Singh and Carvalho will get Rs five lakh each. He also announced a prize of Rs 10 lakh to Lalchand Rajput, cricket manager of the Indian team which won the T20 World Cup.
