President to present National Sports Awards 2021 tomorrow

New Delhi, Nov 12: President Ram Nath Kovind will give away the National Sports Awards 2021 tomorrow at a specially organized function at  Rashtrapati Bhavan. Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports announced the National Sports Awards on November 2. 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 a period of previous four years. ‘Arjuna Award for outstanding performance in sports and games’ is given for good performance over a period of previous four years and showing qualities of leadership, sportsmanship and a sense of discipline. ‘Dronacharya Award for outstanding coaches in sports and games’ is given to coaches for doing outstanding and meritorious work on a consistent basis and enabling sportspersons to excel in International events. ‘Dhyan Chand Award for Lifetime achievement in sports and games’ is given to honour sportspersons who have contributed to sports by their performance and continue to contribute to promotion of sports event after their retirement. ‘Rashtriya Khel ProtsahanPuruskar’ is given to corporate entities (both in private and public sector), sports control boards, NGOs including sports bodies at the state and national level who have played a visible role in the area of sports promotion and development.  Overall top performing university in inter-university tournaments is given Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy. A large number of nominations were received for these awards this year, which were considered by the Selection Committee headed by Justice (Retd.) Mukundakam Sharma (former Judge of Supreme Court), consisting members from eminent sportspersons and persons having experience in sports journalism & sports administrator etc. Details of Awardees: wp:list {"ordered":true} Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2021 /wp:list wp:table S. No.Name of the SportspersonDiscipline1.Neeraj ChopraAthletics2.Ravi KumarWrestling3.LovlinaBorgohainBoxing4.Sreejesh P.RHockey5.AvaniLekharaPara Shooting6.SumitAntilPara Athletics7.Pramod BhagatPara Badminton8.Krishna NagarPara Badminton9.Manish NarwalPara Shooting10.Mithali RajCricket11.Sunil ChhetriFootball12.Manpreet SinghHockey /wp:table (ii)        Arjuna Awards for outstanding performance in Sports and Games 2021 wp:table S. No.Name of the SportspersonDiscipline Arpinder SinghAthletics Simranjit KaurBoxing Shikhar DhawanCricket Bhavani Devi ChadalavadaAnandhaSundhararamanFencing MonikaHockey Vandana KatariyaHockey Sandeep NarwalKabaddi HimaniUttamParabMallakhamb Abhishek VermaShooting Ankita RainaTennis Deepak PuniaWrestling Dilpreet SinghHockey Harman Preet SinghHockey Rupinder Pal SinghHockey Surender KumarHockey Amit RohidasHockey Birendra LakraHockey SumitHockey Nilakanta SharmaHockey Hardik SinghHockey Vivek Sagar PrasadHockey Gurjant SinghHockey Mandeep SinghHockey Shamsher SinghHockey Lalit Kumar UpadhyayHockey Varun KumarHockey Simranjeet SinghHockey Yogesh KathuniyaPara Athletics Nishad KumarPara Athletics Praveen KumarPara Athletics SuhashYathirajPara Badminton SinghrajAdhanaPara Shooting Bhavina PatelPara Table Tennis Harvinder SinghPara Archery Sharad KumarPara Athletics /wp:table (iii)       Dronacharya Award for outstanding coaches in Sports and Games 2021 wp:list {"ordered":true} Life-Time Category: /wp:list wp:table S. No.Name of the CoachDiscipline T. P. OusephAthletics Sarkar TalwarCricket Sarpal SinghHockey Ashan KumarKabaddi Tapan Kumar PanigrahiSwimming /wp:table wp:list {"ordered":true,"start":2} Regular Category: /wp:list wp:table S. No.Name of the CoachDiscipline Radhakrishnan Nair PAthletics Sandhya GurungBoxing Pritam SiwachHockey Jai Prakash NautiyalPara Shooting Subramanian RamanTable Tennis /wp:table  (iv)      Dhyan Chand Award for Lifetime achievement in Sports and Games 2021 wp:table S.No.NameDiscipline Lekha K.C.Boxing Abhijeet KunteChess Davinder Singh GarchaHockey Vikas KumarKabaddi Sajjan SinghWrestling /wp:table (vi) Rashtriya Khel ProtsahanPuruskar 2021 wp:table S. No.CategoryEntity recommended for Rashtriya Khel ProtsahanPuraskar, 20211.Identification and Nurturing of Budding and Young TalentManav Rachna Educational Institution2.Encouragement to sports through Corporate Social ResponsibilityIndian Oil Corporation Limited /wp:table (vii)      Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy 2021:  Panjab University - Chandigarh