NEC gave away Rs 10 lakh, Rs 5 lakh and Rs 3 lakh to Asian and Commonwealth Games winners.
Chekrovolu Swuro (Nagaland), Jayanta Talukdar (Assam), Laishram Bombayla Devi (Manipur) and Tarundeep Rai (Sikkim) are competing in archery discipline.
L Devendro Singh (Manipur), five-time world champion MC Mary Kom along with the youngest Indian athlete Shiva Thapa, will compete in different categories of boxing.
N Soniya Chanu (Manipur) will compete in weightlifting, Somdev Devvarman (Tripura) will be playing tennis while Kothajit Singh (Manipur) is part of the hockey contingent.
During the National Games held at Jarkhand, sportspersons from Manipur together won Rs 556 lakh, Arunachal Pradesh bagged Rs 21 lakh, Assam Rs 146 lakh, Meghalaya Rs 10 lakh, Mizoram Rs 11 lakh, Nagaland Rs 18 lakh, Tripura Rs 15 lakh and Sikkim Rs 5 lakh.
