789 Sukhmeet Bhasin Bathinda, June 9 Hardeep Kaur, an international-level karate player from the region is fighting poverty and is forced to work as a labourer in this scorching heat to transplant paddy in the field in her village Gurne Kalan in Mansa district. The government had promised to give her a job but even after four years the promise remains unfulfilled. While talking to The Tribune, Hardeep Kaur said she has made a name for her district and Punjab by winning 20 medals in karate championships at Malaysia and national games at Goa and other school-level games. She recalls that when she returned after winning the gold medal in karate championship at Malaysia, then Sports Minister Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi had met her when he visited her area and announced a government job for her but now four years have gone by, but the promise remains unfulfilled.