President Pranab Mukherjee has felicitated the Indian Blind Cricket team for winning the inaugural Blind Cricket Twenty20 World Cup earlier this month. The felicitation was done at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Thursday. Sports Minister Jitendra Singh and BCCI vice president Arun Jaitley were also present on the occasion.The sports minister will consider the request of awarding 30 lakh rupees each to the players and 10 crore rupees to promote blind cricket in India through Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI).Mahantesh, General Secretary of CABI, also presented a memorandum to the President requesting him to consider awarding the captain of the Indian team, Shekar Naik, with the Arjuna Award and a special award to the association for organising the event.
News On AIR | December 27, 2012 8:51 PM
Prez felicitate Indian Blind Cricket team for winning Twenty20 World Cup