bengaluru even as athletes belonging to olympic sports reap the benefits of various government schemes those whose sport finds no place in the olympics or asian games find themselves at the bottom of the central and state governments priority list khel ratna awardee pankaj advani who won a pathbreaking four world titles in 2014 was given a cash award of rs 625 lakh by the department of youth empowerment and sports for one title rewards for the other three crowns are yet to be announced what is appalling is the manner in which the 29yearold champion has been treated according to state government norms a gold at the world cup or world championship fetches a cash award of rs 50 lakh but in advanis case his monetary benefit has been downsized i got rs 625 lakh for my gold in egypt world 6red snooker championship ive tried explaining to them that just because it happens once in a year its value does not shrink you got to make a scheme where everyone is included and the cash prize has to be divided proportionately opined advani