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Vijender Singh, who won a bronze medal in 2008 Olympic Games, was the first sportsperson who had a job in Haryana government and was seeking permission to turn pro in 2015. A new policy to pay 33 percent of the income earned by the sportsperson was framed by the government after Vijender’s case.

Indian boxing duo of Sachin Siwach (49kg) and Devanshu Jaiswal (81kg) reached the quarter-finals of their respective categories in the President’s Cup in Kazakhstan. Siwach edged past local favorite O Bayniyazov 3-2 in his match while Jaiswal defeated Belarus’ Pavel Brazovskiy to progress further.

The gold medal winner at the Commonwealth games, Vikas Krishnan, was high on praises for the Indian boxing squad but felt that they could have added more medals to their tally. He asserted that the boxing squad will improve their medal tally in the Asian games to be played later this year.

Indian national boxers’ training in the USA doesn’t seem to be happening, owing to their visa applications, which has been rejected for the second time now. This would have been the first training camp in the United States for Indian boxers, who mostly had their training camps in Europe and Cuba.