After a two day meeting of the selection committee, the Justice Mukundakam Sharma led committee handed over the National Sports Awards 2020 recommendations to the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. The list of recommendations is unique in the sense that it has exceeded the precedence of the number of recommendations for a non-Olympic year. While Mariyappan Thangavelu & Rohit Sharma are among the five recommendations along with Rani Rampal, Vinesh Phogat and Manika Batra for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award. 29 sports-persons make to the list of Arjuna Awards along with coaches who are listed for the Dronacharya Award.
National Sports Awards:
The National Sports Awards are annual awards bestowed to the sports-persons with exceptional performances in their sports, but not limited to the sports-persons only as these include the coaches who are recognized to better the Indian Sports stories. The Awards are given to these sports personalities on the occasion of National Sports Day, August 29, every year. The Awards we discuss here are:
- Arjuna Award
- Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award
- Dhyanchand Award
- Dronacharya Award
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National Sports Awards 2020:
The National Sports Awards 2020 selection committee headed by Justice Sharma includes Virender Sehwag, Sardar Singh, Monalisa Baruah Mehta, Deepa Malik, Devarajan Venkatesan, Sports Commentator Manish Batavia, Sports Journalists Alok Sinha and Neeru Bhatia, Sandip Pradhan (Director General, SAI,), LS Singh (Joint Secretary, Sports Development), and Commander Rajesh Rajagopalan (CEO, Target Olympic Podium Scheme).
The recommendations for Arjuna Award in National Sports Awards 2020 include:
SN | Sports-person | Sport |
---|---|---|
1 | Atanu Das | Archery |
2 | Dutee Chand | Athletics |
3 | Chirag Shetty | Badminton |
4 | Satwik Rankireddy | Badminton |
5 | Vishesh Bhriguvanshi | Basketbal |
6 | Lovlina Borgohain | Boxing |
7 | Manish Kaushik | Boxing |
8 | Ishant Sharma | Cricket |
9 | Ajay Sawant | Equestrian |
10 | Akashdeep Singh | Field Hockey |
11 | Deepika Thakur | Field Hockey |
12 | Sandesh Jhingan | Football |
13 | Aditi Ashok | Golf |
14 | Deepak Hooda | Kabaddi |
15 | Sarika Kale | Kho Kho |
16 | Shiva Keshavan | Luge |
17 | Manish Narwal | Para-Athletics |
18 | Sandeep Chaudhary | Para-Athletics |
19 | Suyash Jadhav | Para-Athletics |
20 | Manu Bhaker | Shooting |
21 | Saurabh Chaudhary | Shooting |
22 | Sanil Shetty | Table Tennis |
23 | Divij Sharan | Tennis |
24 | Mirabai Chanu | Weightlifting |
25 | Divya Kakran | Wrestling |
26 | Rahul Aware | Wrestling |
27 | Sakshi Malik | Wrestling |
28. | Dattu Bhokanal | Rowing |
29. | Deepti Sharma | Cricket |
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The recommendations for Khel Ratna in National Sports Awards 2020 include
SN | Sports-person | Sport |
---|---|---|
1 | Rohit Sharma | Cricket |
2 | Rani Rampal | Field Hockey |
3 | Mariyappan Thangavelu | Para-Athletics |
4 | Manika Batra | Table Tennis |
5 | Vinesh Phogat | Wrestling |
While recognition to the Para-athlete Mariyappan Thangavelu is in line with the parity claim as he won Paralympic gold at the Rio 2016 Summer Games. Cricket, as the most popular sport, has often got more on these recognition that many other sports where the World Champions/Olympic Medalist have failed on getting on the list of recommendations.
The recommendations for Dhyan Chand Award in National Sports Awards 2020 include:
SN | Sports-person | Sport |
---|---|---|
1 | Jincy Philips | Athletics |
2 | Kuldeep Singh Bhullar | Athletics |
3 | Trupti Murgunde | Badminton |
4 | Pradeep Gandhe | Badminton |
5 | N Usha | Boxing |
6 | Lakha Singh | Boxing |
7 | Sukhwinder Singh Sandhu | Football |
8 | Ajeet Singh | Field Hockey |
9 | Manpreet Singh | Kabaddi |
10 | Manjeet Singh | Rowing |
11 | Late Sachin Nag | Swimming |
12 | Nandan Bal | Tennis |
13 | Netar Pal Hooda | Wrestling |
14 | J Ranjit Kumar | Para-Athletics |
The recommendation for Dronacharya Award in National Sports Awards 2020 include:
SN | Name | Sport | Award Type |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Yogesh Malviya | Mallakhamb | Regular |
2 | Gaurav Khanna | Para-Badminton | Regular |
3 | Jaspal Rana | Shooting | Regular |
4 | Kuldeep Handoo | Wushu | Regular |
5 | Jude Felix | Field Hockey | Regular |
6 | Dharmendra Tiwary | Archery | Lifetime |
7 | Pursohattam Rai | Athletics | Lifetime |
8 | Shiv Singh | Women’s Boxing | Lifetime |
9 | Romesh Pathania | Field Hockey | Lifetime |
10 | KK Hooda | Kabaddi | Lifetime |
11 | Vijay Munishwar | Powerlifting | Lifetime |
12 | Naresh Kumar | Tennis | Lifetime |
13 | OP Dahiya | Wrestling | Lifetime |
These were the National Sports Awards 2020 recommendations under different categories. This year the award will be announced virtually on the National Sports Day, due to restrictions post COVID-19 outbreak. Normally, these awards are conferred by the President at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in a ceremonious event.
While this year also, the awards miss the point system, it is to be noted that many from the yesteryears greats are still waiting to be recognized by the government of India. While the demand for Bharat Ratna to Dhyan Chand has failed to draw attention among those in the awards committee, several other athletes who were key to India’s medal runs at the Olympics are yet to be included in government recognition.
(with inputs from TOI)
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