Tokyo 2020: Bajrang Punia Wins Men's 65kg Bronze Medal; Becomes Sixth Indian Wrestler to Win an Olympic Medal.....

byPOLITICS EXPERT VLOG Published:August 07, 2021

Tokyo 2020: Bajrang Punia Wins Men's 65kg Bronze Medal; Becomes Sixth Indian Wrestler to Win an Olympic Medal...

Bajrang Punia on Saturday became the sixth wrestler in Indian history to win an Olympic medal after he won the bronze in men’s 65kg category of the 2020 Tokyo Games. Bajrang, who is the top-ranked wrestler in his weight category, defeated Daulet Niyazbekov of Kazakhstan 8-0 in the bronze medal clash held at the Makuhari Messe Hall.

The 27-year-old was dominant from the word go and with a dominating performance, also took revenge of his defeat at the hands of Daulet in the semifinals of 2019 world championships.Bajrand, a medal favourite, took on Kyrgyzstan's Ernazar Akmataliev in the pre-quarters and won despite the contest ending 3-all thanks to a high-scoring move. The scratchy start gave way to an impressive show in the quarter-finals where he pinned Morteza Cheka Ghiasi of Iran to punch his ticket for the semi-finals.In the semis, he was against Haji Aliyev of Azerbaijan who took the bronze in Rio 2016. Narsingh lost 5-12 despite his attempt at making a turnaround late into the second period.A total of seven Indian wrestlers took part at 2020 Tokyo Games with three of them making it to the medals round while one making it to the final.Two of them went on to win medals.Ravi Dahiya settled for silver after losing his gold medal bout of 57kg category. On the other hand, Deepak Punia lost in the bronze medal match of the 85kg category.

Atmanirbhar Bharat Mission

Atmanirbhar bharat or Self - Reliant India Mission ' is the vision of the prime minister of india Narendra Modi of making india a self - reliant nation . This mission cameup in the form of the ' Atmanirbhar bharat abhiyan ' or self - reliant india mission ' during the announcement of the coronavirus pandemic related economic package on 12th May 2020.

This self - reliant policy does not aim that to be protectionist in nature and as the finance minister clarified , " self - reliant india does not mean cutting off from the rest of the world .
Ravi shankar prasad [ law and IT minister ]
said that self - reliance does not mean isolating away from the world.
Foreign direct investment is welcome , technology is welcome self - reliant india .

✔ Initiatives :-

Atmanirbhar bharat package is very numerous government decisions have taken place such as changing the definition of MSME
[Ministry of Micro , Small and Medium Enterprises is a brach of Government of India], boosting scope for private participation in numerous sector , increasing FDI
[Foreign direct investment] in the defence sector and the vision has found support in the many of the sector such as solar manufacture sector .

☑ Examples of Initiatives which helped Atmanirbhar Bharat :

The growth of india personal protective equipement [PPE] sector from zero before march to 1,50,000 pieces by the beginning of May .

The PPE industry in india has become a Rs.7000 crore in two months the second largest after china .

The largest fund in the country worth Rs.21,000 crore was setup by the IIT Alumni Council[Indian Institute of Technology Alumni Council ] with the aim of supporting the mission towards self - reliance ..
India's own 'Made in india ' 5G network
was also announced in july 2020 by Reliance Jio .
Mukesh Ambani
[Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is an indian billonaire buisness magnate ad the chairman , manging director and largest shareholder of Reliance limited ]announced in mid term of july ' Jio ' has created a complete 5G solution from scratch , that will enable us to launch a world - class 5G service in india , and they were using 100 percent homegrown technologies and solutions .
In month of july 2020 , it was announced that Apple
would manufacture one of their premium iPhone models in India.
In month of August 2020 , the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh announced that the Defence Ministry is now readyfor a big push to 'Atmanirbhar Bharat Initiative' .