Assam Govt Announces Class I Jobs to Medalists of Olympics, Commonwealth & Asian Games

GUWAHATI: Assam government has decided to provide class I government jobs to the medalists of Olympics, Commonwealth and Asian Games from Assam.

This decision was taken as a part of the Cabinet decisions taken in a meeting led by Assam Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday.

The monthly amount of sports pension has been increased from Rs 8000 to Rs 10,000.

The Cabinet also decided to provide Sports Pension to the medal winners of Commonwealth and National Games. Further, the Cabinet decided to appoint a Police Commission to be headed by Retired IAS Officer Himangshu Shekhar DAS, and former DGP PV Sumant for three months to recommend measures for improvement of the policing system, their activities and deployment in Assam.

Both of them will get Chief Secretary status, said the Assam Government in an official statement.

Meanwhile, Lovlina Borgohain became the first Indian boxer to enter the quarterfinals with a 3-2 win over German welterweight Nadine Apetz.

Both boxers, two-time World championship bronze medalists, had received byes into the last 16. Borgohain can now secure a bronze medal with a win over Chin-Chen Nien of Chinese Taipei on Friday.

The 5'9 Borgohain won all three rounds 3-2. But with one judge awarding all three rounds to the German, the split decision could have gone either way.

"I am saddened by the behavior of the Sri Lankan judge who saw Lovlina lose for all three rounds," Bergamasco adds.

"Lovlina could perform a lot better," says childhood coach Padam Boro. "The first round, she was cautious and only got going in the last two. She was not able to properly utilise her right hand. If she did that, the score would have been 5-0 in her favour."

Boro, coach at Sports Authority of India's (SAI) Guwahati centre, discovered Borgohain during a talent hunt at the Sarupathar Girls School in 2012.

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