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Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports Announces National Sports Awards 2024


President of India to Give Away Awards on 17th January 2025

Posted On: 02 JAN 2025 2:26PM by PIB Delhi

Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports announced the National Sports Awards 2024 today. The awardees will receive their awards from the President of India at a specially organized function at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 17th January, 2025 (Friday) at 1100 hours.

Based on the recommendations of the Committee and after due scrutiny, Government has decided to confer awards upon the following sportspersons, coaches, university and entity:

  1. Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2024

S. No.

Name of the Sportsperson

Discipline

1.

Shri Gukesh D

Chess

2.

Shri Harmanpreet Singh

Hockey

3.

Shri Praveen Kumar

Para-Athletics

4.

Ms. Manu Bhaker

Shooting

 

  1. Arjuna Awards for outstanding performance in Sports and Games 2024

S. No.

Name of the Sportsperson

Discipline
  1.  

Ms. Jyothi Yarraji

Athletics
  1.  

Ms. Annu Rani

Athletics
  1.  

Ms. Nitu

Boxing
  1.  

Ms. Saweety

Boxing
  1.  

Ms. Vantika Agrawal

Chess
  1.  

Ms. Salima Tete

Hockey
  1.  

Shri Abhishek

Hockey
  1.  

Shri Sanjay

Hockey
  1.  

Shri Jarmanpreet Singh

Hockey
  1.  

Shri Sukhjeet Singh

Hockey
  1.  

Shri Rakesh Kumar

Para-Archery
  1.  

Ms. Preeti Pal

Para-Athletics
  1.  

Ms. Jeevanji Deepthi

Para-Athletics
  1.  

Shri Ajeet Singh

Para-Athletics
  1.  

Shri Sachin Sarjerao Khilari

Para-Athletics
  1.  

Shri Dharambir

Para-Athletics
  1.  

Shri Pranav Soorma

Para-Athletics
  1.  

Shri H Hokato Sema

Para-Athletics
  1.  

Ms. Simran

Para-Athletics
  1.  

Shri Navdeep

Para-Athletics
  1.  

Shri Nitesh Kumar

Para-Badminton
  1.  

Ms. Thulasimathi Murugesan

Para-Badminton

  1.  

Ms. Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan

Para-Badminton
  1.  

Ms. Manisha Ramadass

Para-Badminton
  1.  

Shri Kapil Parmar

Para-Judo
  1.  

Ms. Mona Agarwal

Para-Shooting
  1.  

Ms. Rubina Francis

Para-Shooting
  1.  

Shri Swapnil Suresh Kusale

Shooting
  1.  

Shri Sarabjot Singh

Shooting
  1.  

Shri Abhay Singh

Squash
  1.  

Shri Sajan Prakash

Swimming
  1.  

Shri Aman

Wrestling

 

  1. Arjuna Awards (Lifetime) for outstanding performance in Sports and Games 2024

S. No.

Name of the Sportsperson

Discipline
  1.  

Shri Sucha Singh

Athletics
  1.  

Shri Murlikant Rajaram Petkar

Para-Swimming

 

  1. Dronacharya Award for outstanding coaches in Sports and Games 2024
  1. Regular Category:

S. No.

Name of the Coach

Discipline
  1.  

Shri Subhash Rana

Para-Shooting
  1.  

Ms. Deepali Deshpande

Shooting
  1.  

Shri Sandeep Sangwan

Hockey
  1. Lifetime Category:

S. No.

Name of the Coach

Discipline
  1.  

Shri S Muralidharan

Badminton
  1.  

Shri Armando Agnelo Colaco

Football

 

  1. Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar

S. No.

Name of the Entity
  1.  

Physical Education Foundation of India

 

(vi)       Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy 2024:

S. No.

Name of University

1

Chandigarh University

Overall winner University

2

Lovely Professional University, (PB)

1st runner up University

3

Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar

2nd runner up University

National Sports Awards are given every year to recognize and reward excellence in sports.

‘Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award’ is given for the spectacular and most outstanding performance in the field of sports by a sportsperson over the period of the previous four years.

‘Arjuna Award for outstanding performance in Sports and Games’ is given for good performance over a period of the previous four years and for showing qualities of leadership, sportsmanship and a sense of discipline.

Arjuna Award (Lifetime) is given to honour and motivate those sportspersons who have contributed to sports by their performance and continue to contribute to promotion of sports even after their retirement from active sporting career.

‘Dronacharya Award for outstanding coaches in Sports and Games’ is given to coaches for doing outstanding and meritorious work on a consistent basis and for enabling sportspersons to excel in International events.

The overall top performing university in Khelo India University Games is given the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy.

The applications were invited online and sportspersons/coaches/entities were permitted to self-apply through a dedicated Online Portal. A large number of applications were received for these awards this year, which were considered by the Selection Committee headed by Justice (Retd.) V. Ramasubramanian, Supreme Court of India and consisting members from eminent sportspersons, persons having experience in sports journalism and sports administrators.

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Himanshu Pathak


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