{"id":2387,"date":"2021-03-10T22:39:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T16:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2021-03-10T22:39:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T16:54:16","slug":"sports-minister-rijiju-felicitates-girls-in-motorsports-to-mark-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/sports-minister-rijiju-felicitates-girls-in-motorsports-to-mark-womens-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Sports Minister Rijiju felicitates girls in motorsports to mark Women’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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March 9,2021: (Himalini Delhi Bureau) Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju promised full government support to young girls who wanted to take up motorsports while felicitating India\u2019s top women in the sport on Monday to mark International Women\u2019s Day. He had a special word praise for Aashi Hanspal, Kart Racer from Mumbai, who was one of the youngest members of the delegation, calling her a \u2018little daredevil.\u2019<\/p>\n

Aashi, who was decorated with the \u2018Outstanding Women in Motorsport\u2019 title by the FMSCI in 2019, had become the only girl from the country to qualify for FIA\u2019s Girls on Track-Rising Stars event in France in Oct. 2020. She has also participated in the 24 Hours Endurance Racing Championship in Dubai recently, just two years after getting behind the wheels of a racing car.<\/p>\n

The 20-member strong delegation included ace rally drivers Garima Avtar (Delhi), Khyati Mody and Manisha Kelkar (both Mumbai) and superbikers Niharika Yadav (Delhi) and Anushriya Gulati (Dehradun).<\/p>\n

\u2018Last year, we gave the Arjuna Award to a rally driver as I felt the motorsports needed recognition. I do hope that it will encourage each of you to push yourself to your best so that you can bring laurels for the country,\u2019 the minister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 9,2021: (Himalini Delhi Bureau) Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju promised full government support to young girls who wanted to take up motorsports while felicitating India\u2019s top women in the sport on Monday to mark International Women\u2019s Day. He had a special word praise for Aashi Hanspal, Kart Racer from Mumbai, who was one of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG-20210310-WA0002.jpg?fit=961%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paS11m-Cv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}