Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh will honour Olympics medal winners and participating players from state besides Gold medalist Neeraj Chopra with the cash awards in a special function to be held in Chandigarh tomorrow (12 August).<br />''<br />''In a press communiqué, Sports and Youth Services Minister Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi said that Punjab Governor V.P. Singh Badnaur would be the special guest on this occasion. The Sports Minister said that as per the special announcement of the Chief Minister, gold medal winner Javelin Thrower Neeraj Chopra, who has deep roots with Punjab, would be honored with an amount of Rs.2.51 crore.<br />''Rana Sodhi said that 11 state players from Punjab, who were part of the Indian hockey team which brought laurels in Olympics by winning a bronze medal after 41 years of drought, would be honoured with Rs.2.51 crore each. Now the all state hockey players would be given Rs.2.51 crore each.<br />''<br />''Notably, Indian hockey team led by Captain Manpreet Singh and Vice-Captain Harmanpreet Singh. Apart from them, Rupinder Pal Singh, Simranjit Singh, Mandeep Singh, Gurjant Singh, Shamsher Singh, Varun Kumar, Dilpreet Singh, Hardik Singh and Krishan Pathak were from Punjab.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #000000;">Fourth positioned Indian women hockey team members from state Reena Khokhar and Gurjit Kaur and Discus Thrower Kamalpreet Kaur, who remained on 6th position also amongst to be honoured with cash prize of Rs. 50 lakhs each. Similarly, Boxer Simranjit Kaur, Shooter Anjum Moudgill and Angadveer Singh, athletes Tejinder Pal Singh Toor & Gurpreet Singh and Paralympic Badminton player Palak Kohli, would also be given Rs.21 lakh each.</span><br />