{"id":8354,"date":"2024-09-04T22:24:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T16:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=8354"},"modified":"2024-09-04T22:24:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T16:39:18","slug":"pm-oli-honours-palesha-announces-rs-6-5-million-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/pm-oli-honours-palesha-announces-rs-6-5-million-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Oli honours Palesha, announces Rs 6.5 million prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Sept 4: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has announced a cash prize of Rs 6.5 million to Palesha Goverdan, who got a historic bronze medal in the Para Olympics held in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>PM Oli honoured athlete Palesha at a function organized at his official residence, Baluwatar and announced the cash prize on Wednesday. He congratulated her and extended best wishes.<\/p>\n<p>Palesha had secured the bronze medal by defeating a rival from Serbia by 15-8 points in the under-57 kg woman category of taekwondo K-44.<\/p>\n<p>She is the first player in Nepali history to secure a medal in the Paralympics.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, PM Oli observed, &#8220;As Nepali players participate in the international games, all Nepalis expect their achievement and excellence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Palesha&#8217;s victory is Nepal&#8217;s victory. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been saying that once Nepalis get a chance, they certainly make achievements. It was not simply Nepal&#8217;s presence in the Para Olympics this time but Nepal&#8217;s compelling performance, which elated all of us,&#8221; he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>The PM also encouraged the players to continue excellence to make further records in sports. Our campaign for achievements has kicked off, according to him.<\/p>\n<p>Also honoured on the occasion were the coach, manager and other players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Sept 4: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has announced a cash prize of Rs 6.5 million to Palesha Goverdan, who got a historic bronze medal in the Para Olympics held in Paris. PM Oli honoured athlete Palesha at a function organized at his official residence, Baluwatar and announced the cash prize on Wednesday. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8357,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8354\/revisions\/8357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}