New Delhi: Poverty is a hard reality. Many times, people who have already proved their talent come under the grip of it. Something similar has happened with a legendary shooter. Shooter and coach Naresh Kumar Sharma, who has represented India in the Paralympics, four times in the Para-Asian Games and also in the World Cup, has decided to return the Arjuna Award. He has threatened to return the Arjuna Award, accusing the Sports Authority of India of misbehaviour.
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In a letter to Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju, Sharma said that when he told a trainee that a private coach could not come to the range under the rules of SAI, she made allegations of sexual harassment against him. As a result, he lost his job and is unable to pay even his children's school fees. He wrote in the letter that "with a heavy heart I have decided to return the Arjuna Award and a cheque of Rs 50,000 because the Sports Authority of India officials has treated me very badly in the last three months".
Sharma is a para-shooter who won the Arjuna Award in 1997. He said, "I represented the country in many major tournaments. In the past three months, SAI treated me as a criminal, he said. An apprentice made allegations of sexual harassment against me because I told her not to bring a private coach to the range".
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SAI's then Director General Neelam Kapoor had launched an investigation under the Vishakha Guidelines, but Sharma said he has been waiting for the report from three months. Sharma said, "SAI doesn't reply to me. I lost my job and I couldn't pay my children's school fees. I could not play the sixth Paralympic. He said, he has lost confidence in the system.
