Country’s largest paramilitary force CRPF has decided to appoint Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu as it’s brand ambassador and bestow the honorary rank of Commandant on the ace badminton player.
A Commandant rank in the CRPF is equivalent to the position of a Superintendent of Police (SP) and such an officer commands a battalion of about 1,000 personnel, when posted in field operations.
Being the brand ambassador of the force, Sindhu would be asked to hold motivational sessions with troops when she is not playing or practising and her messages would be sent to all the personnel deployed across the country.
Sindhu won a historic silver in the women’s singles badminton at the recently concluded Rio Olympic Games and was conferred India’s highest sporting honour — the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 2016.