STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: If one goes by Sports Council standards no sports person in Jammu and Kashmir would get selected for the time-to-time vacancies origination in government sector. This became evident when on Monday some of the prospective sports persons staged a protest over the lackadaisical attitude of the local sports council officials. In most of the cases the local official has failed to forward the names of the few of the sports persons who not only represented the State in National Games but in Commonwealth and Asian championship who have been denied the benefit of sports quota for jobs in government sector in Jammu and Kashmir.
The list of 25 include one Arjuna Awardee, a Commonwealth participant, two shooters a gold and silver medal winners in shooting and one bronze medal in taekwondo and athletic rest of them include medal winners in power-lifting at national level who are yet to get placement in government departments under sports quota.
The players who are to get a job in government department under sports quota: Subrata Dutta, Arjuna Awardee, Asian Secretary Power Lifter, Peter Phorme, International Sports Vice President, Ashish Bhardwaj, Taekwondo (Bronze Medal at National level), Kumar Gourav Handball, (Gold at Inter-Zonal Level), Vinay Sharma, Power-Lifter, (Silver and two bronze in individual event at National level (Bench Press), Rachna Slathia, Power-Lifter (Silver medal at National level (Bench Press), Sunita Verma, Power-Lifter (Silver and three bronze at national level individual event (bench press), Vikrant Sharma, Power-Lifter (Silver at National Level (Bench Press), Deepak Sharma, Power-Lifter (Silver in Senior Power Lifting Championship – 2013 (Bench Press), Rakesh Kumar Power Lifter (Silver Medal at National Level (Bench Press), Monika Sharma Power Lifter (3 Bronze Medal at national level (Bench Press), Anshu Maan Sharma, Power-Lifter (Gold , Silver and Bronze medal at National Level (Bench Press), Parminder Kour, Power-Lifter (Silver and Bronze medal at National Level (Bench Press), Sumit Gupta, Power-Lifter, (2nd Place in Asian Championship and two individual silver at National level (Bench Press), Sahira Bano, Power-Lifter (Bronze medal at National Level (Bench Press), Manoj Singh, Power Lifter (2 Bronze medals at National Level (Bench Press), Varun Singh, Power-Lifter (Bronze medal at National Level (Bench Press), Mamta Sharma, Power-Lifter, (Bronze medal at National Level (Bench Press), Hardeep Singh Power-Lifter (3rd Place in Commonwealth Championship in individual event (Bench Press), Sandeep Kumar , Power Lifter (Bronze medal at National Level (Bench Press), Arun Dev Singh, Power-Lifter (Silver and Bronze medal at National Level (Bench Press), Neha Gupta, Power Lifter (Bronze medal at National Level (Bench Press), Sunita Devi, Power Lifter (Bronze medal at National Level (Bench Press), Tarun Dev Singh Jamwal, Shooting (Gold Medal at All India Level), Deepika, Shooting (Silver Medal at All India Level) and Ajay Sharma, Athletics (Bronze Medal at National Level).
