Madhya Pradesh

• 06 Oct 2021

Aishwarya Pratap

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Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar of Madhya Pradesh State Shooting Academy has won a gold medal for the country by performing brilliantly in the 50m Rifle Three Position (Men) section of the ISSF Junior World Championships held in Lima (Peru). He achieved this feat with 463.4 points in the final.

Key Points

• Along with this, Aishwarya also set a new world record at the junior level. Earlier this world record was held by Filip Napejshal of Czech Republic, which he set on November 19, 2019 in China with 462.9 points.
• France's Lucas Bernard Denis Kries was second with 456.5 points, while America's Gavin Raymond Le Barnick was third with 446.6 points.
• Aishwarya, who represented the country at the Tokyo Olympics, equaled the world record in the qualification round to finish at the top with 1185 points.
• Aishwarya equaled the world record with a total of 1185 points with 397 marks in neeling, 398 in prone and 390 in standing.
• He has set a world record for the second time in this event of the World Championships. Earlier, he had set a new world record by securing 459.3 points in the 50m rifle 3 position at the 2019 ISSF Junior World Cup in Suhl, Germany.
• It is noteworthy that Aishwarya Pratap Singh, born in a farmer family on February 3, 2001 in village Ratanpur of Jhirnia tehsil of Khargone district, is training in Madhya Pradesh State Shooting Academy since 2015. He has so far brought three gold, one silver and one bronze medals to the country in international competitions. Aishwarya Pratap has earned 11 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze medals in national competitions.

'Dedication for Children' Program by NCPCR

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Recently, the National Commission for Protection of Children has started the program 'Bachchon ke liye Samarpan' (Dedication for Children) in three districts of Madhya Pradesh - Vidisha, Raisen and Sehore.

Key Points

• In this, financial assistance will be given to such children, who have lost one or both of their parents due to the corona epidemic.
• Chairman of the Commission Priyank Kanungo said that the program of 'Dedication for Children' will be expanded in future.
• The first installment of 1 lakh 66 thousand rupees was transferred to the accounts of children and their guardians at the rate of two thousand rupees per child per month under private sponsorship to 83 children identified by the commission of three districts of the state by Vedantu Innovation Limited.
• The Commission has collected data of all children directly or indirectly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, who have become vulnerable, who need care and protection and who have given their single parent or both parents to COVID- Lost for any other reason after 19 or March 2020. Non-governmental organizations have also been added to benefit them.