The PM also said that India’s celebrated para athletes have a 'lot more to offer' to the country and urged them to play a role outside the sports arena to bring about a change.
Nagar saw off his rival Hong Kong's Chu Man Kai in the final to retain his unbeaten run at the Games and join compatriot Pramod Bhagat in the gold medal-winning list.
The 38-year-old Noida district magistrate lost 21-15 17-21 15-21 to two-time world champion France's Lucas Mazur in the 62-minute SL4 class final Sunday.
19-year-old Narwal shot a total of 218.2, a Paralympic record, to claim the yellow metal in his debut Games and Adana won silver with an effort of 216.7 in Paralympics shooting.
Suhas Yathiraj went from hobbyist to pro after attending a badminton tournament as chief guest in 2015, and is just two wins away from a gold medal at Tokyo 2020.
Lekhara clinched bronze in the Women's 50m rifle 3 positions SH1 at the Tokyo Paralympics. Earlier this week, the 19-year-old had become the first woman to win a gold at the Games.
While an open tender has been issued for procurement of the optical instruments, Bengaluru-based firm Tonbo Imaging, whose services the Army has previously used, is a frontrunner.
What is Shiv Sena’s ideology? We might say it’s been a convenient mix of extreme ethnic chauvinism & unforgiving Hindutva. Within the second, the party retained space to manoeuvre.