{"id":8906,"date":"2024-09-13T16:30:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T10:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=8906"},"modified":"2024-09-13T16:30:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T10:45:55","slug":"government-honours-olympics-2024-medalist-palesha-with-cash-prize-of-rs-6-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/government-honours-olympics-2024-medalist-palesha-with-cash-prize-of-rs-6-5-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Government honours Olympics 2024 medalist Palesha with cash prize of Rs 6.5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Sept 13: The government has hounoured Palesha Goverdhan, a Paralympic athlete, for her historic achievement in the Paris 2024 Paralympics with a cash prize today.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli handed Rs 6.5 million (without tax deduction) to para-taekwondo player in recognition of her historic performance in the event.<\/p>\n<p>Palesha clinched the first bronze medal for the country from the Paris Paralympics. Earlier the Council of Ministers on September 5 (Bhadra 20) decided to honor the 21-year-old athlete.<br \/>\nThe prize distribution ceremony was held amidst a special ceremony at the Prime Minister&#8217;s official residence, Baluwatar by the Ministry of Youths and Sports.<\/p>\n<p>The government also awarded her coach Kabiraj Negi Lama with a cash prize of Rs 585,000 and her team manager Ramchandra Shrestha with Rs 292,000.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, the Prime Minister announced that the decision to not impose tax on the prize amount for sports is to encourage this sector.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed his hope that the government would achieve more success in the international forum. He said, &#8220;The achievement of Palesha is the first highest sports award for the country and the pride for Nepal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Youth and Sports, Tejulal Chaudhary, Secretary Suman Raj Aryal, National Sports Council&#8217;s member secretary Tankalal Ghishing, and Nepal Taekwondo Association officials were present on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister pledged to make efforts for enabling the atmosphere for the higher studies for Palesha and her participation in the upcoming Asian Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Sept 13: The government has hounoured Palesha Goverdhan, a Paralympic athlete, for her historic achievement in the Paris 2024 Paralympics with a cash prize today. Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli handed Rs 6.5 million (without tax deduction) to para-taekwondo player in recognition of her historic performance in the event. Palesha clinched the first bronze [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8906","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\/8906"}],"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=8906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8909,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906\/revisions\/8909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}