The Telangana Excise & Sports Minister T Padma Rao Goud today presented a cheque for Rs 1 crore and documents relating to the allotment of a 600 square yard plot in Banjara Hills to Indian women's cricket team captain Mithali Raj.
The minister felicitated the cricketer at the Secretariat, and expressed hope that she would continue to do well and bring more laurels to the state in the future.
The minister said that the money and the plot of land had been gifted in keeping with the promise made by Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, and that the CM was all for encouraging sports at all levels in a big way.
KCR had announced the gift when the Mithali Raj-captained Indian women's cricket team had reached the finals of the recently concluded ICC Women's Cricket World Cup held in London.