AIDWA strongly supports the position taken by India’s top ranked Squash player Dipika Pallikal who has conveyed that she wouldn’t participate in National squash championship until women get equal prize money(http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/others/Dipika-Pallikal-wants-equal-prize-money/articleshow/48013742). This is a very pertinent issue which she has raised. Rampant discrimination against sportswomen on this score is going on in the field of sports. Which needs to be challenged. Because this is against the basic concept of equality envisaged in the constitution of our country. And in most cases this highly discriminatory treatment is meted out by state and its sports bodies. It should be stopped immediately and the accountability should be fixed. Recently the Punjab Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal also announced the discriminatory prize money for men and women winner of Kabbadi World Cup (http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/community/kabaddi-world-cup-from-november-15/102101.html.) AIDWA wrote a strongly worded letter to the Chief Minister asking them to amend their decision (copy attached). We demand the Sports Ministry must issue a direction to all Sports Federations, Associations and allied organizations for provisioning equal amount of monetary prizes for men and women teams. A delegation of AIDWA would soon try to meet Sports Minister to raise the issues concerning sports women in the country.
