AGARTALA, Sep 20 (TIWN): Agartala Municipal Corporation felicitates Dipa Karmakar on Tuesday. The program was held at town-hall Agartala, where AMC Mayor Prafullajit Sinha, Urban Development Minister Manik Dey were present.

On this same day Dipa Karmakar & her coach was felicitated by UBI Bank with Rs. 5 lakhs each to them, but AMC ended with flower bouquet. 

Gymnast Dipa Karmakar, missed the medal in the Rio Olympics by just with the gap of few points, is the first Indian gymnast to make the cut in the Olympics in 52 years.

She is a specialist at ‘Prudonova’ vault and would also attempt the Tsukahara 720 vault. She is the fifth woman gymnast in the world to be skilled in the Prudonova. Although the nation was expecting gold from Dipa but unfortunately Dipa dropped to fourth position and narrowly missed gold in the Rio Olympic.

Dipa Karmakar returned empty handed from the Vaults final at the Gymnastics event of Rio 2016 Olympics after she finished the event at fourth position. Karmakar scored 15.066 points in the final but clinching upto 4th position and representing India at such big platform is highly appreciable.

However, Dipa and her coach are highly satisfied as she made it upto Rio and now her target is Tokyo 2020.

Other states whereas  gifting Dipa cash rewards, which may help her in her  career, Tripura Govt. just busy in broadcasting own party with Dipa advertisement sending her with empty hands of flower-felicitation.