PIB News Update: Minister of State (I/C) for Youth Affairs and Sports, Shri Kiren Rijiju has informed that The salient features of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay National Welfare Fund for Sportspersons (PDUNWFS) are as follows :
(i) To provide suitable assistance to outstanding sportspersons now living in indigent circumstances;
(ii) To provide suitable assistance to outstanding sportspersons injured during the period of their training for competitions and also during the competitions, depending on the nature of the injury;
(iii) To provide suitable assistance to outstanding sportspersons who bring glory to the country in international sports field and who are disabled as an after effect of their strenuous training or otherwise and to provide them assistance for medical treatment;
(iv) To provide suitable assistance to promote welfare of outstanding sportspersons generally in order to alleviate distress among them and their dependents in indigent circumstances.
Funds are not sanctioned/released under the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay National Welfare Fund for Sportspersons scheme area-wise. Information of funds sanctioned to athletes under the scheme during each of the last three and current year (as on 25.11.2019) is at Annexure-1.
The financial help is provided to athletes depending upon their financial and medical conditions. The information of funds provided to athletes during the period under question is at Annexure-1.
Annexure – 1
| Year | S.
No. |
Name of sportsperson/ organization | Sports discipline | Purpose for financial assistance | State/UT to which beneficiary belongs | Amount paid
(in Rs.) |
|
| 2016-17 | 1 | Shri Mohd. Shahid | Hockey | Medical Treatment | Uttar Pradesh | 10,00,000 | |
| 2 | Shri Bir Bahadur Singh | Football | Ameliorating financial condition | Telangana | 2,00,000 | ||
| 3 | Ms Preeti Beniwal | Boxing | For Medical Treatment | Haryana | 85,000 | ||
| Total : | 12,85,000 | ||||||
| 2017-18 | 4 | Shri Mohammad Habib | Football | Medical Treatment | Andhra Pradesh | 5,00,000 | |
| 5 | Shri N.K. Mishra | volleyball | Ameliorating financial condition | Rajasthan | 5,00,000 | ||
| 6 | Shri Kaur Singh | Boxing | Ameliorating financial condition | Punjab | 5,00,000 | ||
| 7 | Family of Late Ms Nitisha Negi | Football | Financial assistance to family | Delhi | 5,00,000 | ||
| 8 | Ms Gohela Boro | Archery | Medical Treatment | Assam | 3,37,500 | ||
| 9 | Family of Late Master Praveen, hockey trainee at STC Bhopal | Hockey | Financial assistance to family | Haryana | 2,00,000 | ||
| Total : | 25,37,500 | ||||||
| 2018-19 | 10 | Shri N. Brij Kishore | Gymnastic | Medical treatment | Telangana | 6,00,000 | |
| 11 | Family of Shri Sumit Rabha, football player | Football | Medical treatment | Assam | 5,00,000 | ||
| 12 | Ms Khaidem Kalambia Chanu | Fencing | Medical treatment | Assam | 5,00,000 | ||
| 13 | Shri Lakshmi Kanta Das | Weightlifting | Medical treatment | West Bengal | 2,00,000 | ||
| 14 | Shri Limba Ram | Archery | Medical treatment | Rajasthan | 5,00,000 | ||
| 15 | Ms Gohela Boro | Archery | Medical treatment | Assam | 5,00,000 | ||
| 16 | Shri Ashok Soren | archery | Ameliorating financial condition | Jharkhand | 5,00,000 | ||
| 17 | Ms Garima Joshi | Athletics | Medical treatment | Uttrakhand | 5,00,000 | ||
| 18 | Shri Prem Lal | Wrestling | Medical treatment | Delhi | 5,00,000 | ||
| 19 | Shri Hakam Singh | Athletics | Medical treatment | Punjab | 10,00,000 | ||
| 20 | Ms Vandana Suryavanshi | Judo | Ameliorating financial condition | Madhya Pradesh | 3,00,000 | ||
| 21 | Shri G. Lakshaman | Athletics | Ameliorating financial condition | Kerala | 10,00,000 | ||
| Total : | 66,00,000 | ||||||
| 2019-20 | 22 | Shri Limba Ram Ahari | Archery | Medical treatment | Rajasthan | 5,00,000 | |
| 23 | Shri Madasu Srinivas Rao | Badminton (Para) | Ameliorating financial condition | Andhra Pradesh | 5,00,000 | ||
| 24 | Ms Chandro Devi Tomar | Shooting | Medical treatment | Uttar Pradesh | 5,00,000 | ||
| 25 | Shri Renjith Maheshwari | Athletics (Para) | Medical treatment | Tamil Nadu | 2,20,000 | ||
| 26 | Ms Veera Pal Kaur | Athletics | Medical treatment | Punjab | 1,50,000 | ||
| 27 | Ms Mithula U.K. | Badminton | Medical treatment | Karnataka | 10,00,000 | ||
| 28 | Shri J. Pitchayya | Ball badminton | Medical treatment | Telangana | 5,00,000 | ||
| 29 | Shri Ansh Yadav | Athletics | Medical treatment | Uttar Pradesh | 10,00,000 | ||
| 30 | Ms Inshah Bashir | Basketball (Para) | Medical treatment | Jammu & Kashmir | 50,000 | ||
| 31 | Shri Sanjay Singh | Wushu | Medical treatment | Haryana | 1,00,000 | ||
| 32 | Ms Saly George | Volleyball | Ameliorating financial condition | Kerala | 2,50,000 | ||
| 33 | Ms Gohela Boro | Archery | Medical Treatment | Assam | 1,62,415 | ||
| Total : | 49,32,415 | ||||||
| Grand Total : | 1,53,54,915 | ||||||
Monthly pension is also being given from ‘Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay National Welfare Fund for Sportspersons’ to the following sportspersons of yesteryears:
| S. No. | Name of yesteryear sportsperson | State/UT to which beneficiary belongs | Monthly pension (in Rs.) |
| 1 | Smt. Bhagwan Devi | Delhi | 10,000 |
| 2 | Smt. Nilima Vasant Ponkhe | Maharashtra | 8,000 |
| 3 | Shri H.L.P rabhakar | Karnataka | 8,000 |
| 4 | Shri O.K. Sathyan | Kerala | 8,000 |
| 5 | Shri V. Govardan | Kerala | 8,000 |
| 6 | Shri N. Jayaraman | Kerala | 8,000 |
| 7 | Shri P. Ravindran | Kerala | 8,000 |
| 8 | Smt. RitikaDhar | West Bengal | 8,000 |
| 9 | Smt. JaspreetKaur | Punjab | 10,000 |
| 10 | Shri Samar Banerjee | West Bengal | 8,000 |
| 11 | Shri Robin Hazra | West Bengal | 8,000 |
| 12 | Shri Nikhil Kumar Nandi | West Bengal | 8,000 |
| 13 | Shri E. Rama KrishaRao | Karnataka | 8,000 |
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