The Sixteen-year-old Preety Sarkar from Rai Bahadur Lane, Jorhat,  has been selected to represent in the Indian Team for the upcoming 11th 'World Martial Arts Games-2017' at Florida, the USA in 'September, 2017 in under 45 kg weight category.

She recently won a gold medal at the Second National Martial Arts Games, NMAG held in May 2017 at Talkatora Indoor Stadium.

She is Presently doing class XI (Arts) at Jorhat College.Virendra Mittal, Deputy Commissioner, Jorhat handed over a cheque for Rs 50,000 (Rupees Fifty thousand) given by State Level Advisory Committee (SLAC) for Students and Youth Welfare, Assam to Preety Sarkar on August 19, 2017.

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