New Delhi

Badminton Association of India's (BAI) continuous endeavour to reward top-quality performance will see the association disburse close to Rs 1.5 crore to players and support staff.

BAI, which had awarded a kitty of Rs 1 crore to the Thomas Cup winning squad earlier this year, announced the bonanza for the 2022 Commonwealth Games medalists, and 2021 and 2022 World Championships medalists.

The Indian contingent came home with the best-ever showing from the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, bagging three gold, one silver and two bronze medals while the Indian men's shuttlers have three medals to show from the two editions of the world championships.

"Our badminton players have been consistently winning laurels for the country and this cash award is a small effort to acknowledge their amazing achievements over the last two years," said BAI president Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma while announcing the prize money.

The 10-member mixed team, which won the silver medal in Birmingham will get Rs 3 lakh each for their effort while the eight members of the support staff with get Rs 1.5 lakh each.

Commonwealth Games men's and women's singles champions Lakshya Sen and PV Sindhu would take home Rs 20 lakh each while the men's doubles combination of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy will be rewarded with Rs 25 lakh for bagging the historic gold in Birmingham.

Apart from the gold medalists, the young Women's doubles combination of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly will take home Rs 7.5 lakh for their maiden bronze medal-winning effort.

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Former world No.1 Kidambi Srikanth will also get Rs 5 lakh for his men's singles bronze in Birmingham along with Rs 10 lakh for his silver medal-winning effort at the 2021 BWF World Championships in Huelva, Spain.