Rupees Five Lakhs Financial Assistance For Former Gold-Medalist Archer Working as Daily Wage Worker

The Union Sports Ministry on Tuesday sanctioned financial assistance of rupees five lakh to former archer Ashok Soren, who is currently living in an indigent condition in Jamshedpur. Media reports

The Union Sports Ministry on Tuesday sanctioned financial assistance of rupees five lakh to former archer Ashok Soren, who is currently living in an indigent condition in Jamshedpur.

Media reports had emerged that the 28-year-old was working as a labourer under the government’s rural employment guarantee scheme.

Shame for the entire country a Gold medalist archer Ashok Soren for survival became daily wage worker under MNREGA @Jharkhand Govt@ @Ra_THORe https://t.co/gT8ndNwQzd #HimachalPradeshElections pic.twitter.com/MdFcSelmER

— VIJAY PANJIAR (@vijaypanjiar) November 9, 2017

@Ra_THORe Asian gold medalist in archery Sh. Ashok Soren working under #MNREGA scheme.
Sad#HelpHim pic.twitter.com/2BJSMXNGI8

— आशीष राज पाण्डेय (@AshishShaheb) October 25, 2017

Soren won two gold medals at the 2008 South Asian Games.

The financial assistance has been given from Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay National Welfare Fund for Sportspersons.

(With Inputs From IANS)