Sahara is the India’s most renounced and top most company which has been sponsoring Indian Cricket Team from many years. However, their relationship with the Indian Cricket Board BCCI may be in troubled waters but they have came forward to support the Indian Archers to sponsor them and also offered a total cash of Rs.3 million incentives.
There are around 37 archers who have been selected for the incentive criteria. Among the 37 archers the strongest competitor is a 17 year old girl name Deepika Kumari who is the biggest hope for India in the London Olympics 2012 and was awarded with Rs.4.10lakhs for her based performance of 2011 followed by Laishram Bombayla of Rs.2.20lakhs and Chekrovolu Swuro incentive of Rs.2lakhs. The trio had stunned world champions, Korea in the biennial World Championships to book Olympic berths. Deepika, meanwhile had the capped year with dozen international medals including the world Junior Gold Medal.
The only man who has qualified for the London Olympics Jayanta Talukdar was given Rs.1.40lakhs, followed by Tarundeep Rai who was also give the same amount of Rs.1.40lakhs. rahul banerjee was given an amount of Rs.70,000 for his performance in 2011. The Archers in the men division has only one chance left to qualify for the London Olympics 2012 which was a quota in the third world cup to be held in Ogden from July 2012.
The resident head of Sahara India Pariwar in Kolkata Mr. Ranoj Dasgupta has said “we are proud to be associated with the game of archery and hope the cash award would encourage them to perform better and bring glory and laurels to the country”.
