Ministry of Childhood Affairs and Sports launched the National Sports Awards 2021 on Tuesday (October 2).
Tokyo Olympic gold medallist javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, silver medal-worthwhile wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya, boxer Lovlina Borgohain, and Paralympic Games medallists Avani Lekhara, Pramod Bhagat, Krishna Nagar, Sumit Antil, and Manish Narwal are among a dozen who will be awarded the Vital Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award by the authorities.
Hockey crew captain Manpreet Singh and goalkeeper PR Sreejesh along with cricketer Mithali Raj and national football crew skipper Sunil Chhetri get been the others named for the Khel Ratna award.
The awardees will receive their awards from the President of India at a particularly organized feature on the Darbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan on November 13.
Besides the 12 Khel Ratna award winners, the jumbo list of national sports actions awards winners involves 39 athletes including history-making fencer Bhavani Devi, woman hockey participant Vandana Katariya, 16 male hockey gamers wo ere section of the crew that gained a historic bronze medal after a gap of four decades on the Tokyo Olympics, and Paralympics medallist Bhavina Patel – get been given the Arjuna Award.
The Vital Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award is the easiest sports actions honour awarded by the authorities and is given for excellent performances in the realm of sports actions while the Arjuna Award is to recognise fixed performances and qualities treasure management and self-discipline. Both awards bewitch into story performances over a duration of four years and comprise a trophy, a citation, and a cash award.
On the total, the awards are given on August 29 on the occasion of the National Sports Day nonetheless this twelve months get been deferred for this reason of the Tokyo Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games.
In the usual course, the performance at Tokyo would get been realizing about for this twelve months if the Olympics get been held in 2020 and no longer regain postponed for this reason of the Covid-19 pandemic.
With the nation’s sportspersons growing with their excellent performance ever at both the Olympics and Paralympics, the Sports Ministry tried to accommodate as many medallists as that you just might well perhaps moreover judge of, thus the jumbo list.
The chubby list of award winners:
Vital Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2021
Neeraj Chopra (Athletics), Ravi Kumar Dahiya (Wrestling), Lovlina Borgohain (Boxing), PR Sreejesh (Hockey), Avani Lekhara (Para Shooting), Sumit Antil (Para-Athletics), Pramod Bhagat (Para Badminton), Krishna Nagar (Para Badminton), Manish Narwal (Para Shooting), Mithali Raj (Cricket), Sunil Chhetri (Football), Manpreet Singh (Hockey).
Arjuna Award
Arpinder Singh (Athletics), Simranjit Kaur (Boxing), Shikhar Dhawan (Cricket), CA Bhavani Devi (Fencing), Monika (Hockey), Vandana Katariya (Hockey), Sandeep Narwal (Kabaddi), Himani Uttam Parab (Mallakhamb), Abhishek Verma (Shooting), Ankita Raina (Tennis), Deepak Punia (Wrestling), Dilpreet Singh (Hockey), Harmanpreet Singh (Hockey), Rupinder Perfect friend Singh (Hockey), Surender Kumar (Hockey), Amit Rohidas (Hockey), Birendra Lakra (Hockey), Sumit (Hockey), Nilakanta Sharma (Hockey), Hardik Singh (Hockey), Vivek Sagar Prasad (Hockey), Gurjant Singh (Hockey), Mandeep Singh (Hockey), Shamsher Singh (Hockey), Lalit Upadhyay (Hockey), Varun Kumar (Hockey), Simranjeet Singh (Hockey), Yogesh Kathuniya (Para Athletics), Nishad Kumar (Para Athletics), Praveen Kumar (Para Athletics), Suhash Yathiraj (Para Badminton), Singhraj Adhana (Para Shooting), Bhavina Patel (Para Desk Tennis), Harvinder SIngh (Para Archery) and Sharad Kumar (Para Athletics).
Dronacharya Award winners
Radhakrishnan Nair (Athletics), Sandhya Gurung (Boxing), Pritam Siwach (Hockey), Jai Prakash Nautiyal (Para Shooting), Subramanian Raman (Desk Tennis).
Dronacharya Lifetime Award winners
TP Ouseph (Athletics), Sarkar Talwar (Cricket), Harpal Singh (Hockey), Ashan Kumar (Kabaddi), Tapan Kumar Panigrahi (Swimming),
Dhyan Chand Award for Lifetime Fulfillment in Sports
Lekha KC (Boxing), Abhijeet Kunte (Chess), Davinder Singh Garcha (Hockey), Vikas Kumar (Kabaddi), Sajjan Singh (Wrestling).