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 organised function at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 17th January, 2025 (Friday) at 1100 hours. National Sports Awards are given every year to recognise 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.
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:
• Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2024
Gukesh D
Harmanpreet Singh
Praveen Kumar
Manu Bhaker
• Arjuna Awards for outstanding performance in Sports and Games 2024
Jyothi Yarraji
Annu Rani
Nitu
Saweety
Vantika Agrawal
Salima Tete
Abhishek
Sanjay
Jarmanpreet Singh
Sukhjeet Singh
Rakesh Kumar
Preeti Pal
Jeevanji Deepthi
Ajeet Singh
Sachin Sarjerao Khilari
Dharambir
Pranav Soorma
H Hokato Sema
Simran
Navdeep
Nitesh Kumar
Thulasimathi Murugesan
Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan
Manisha Ramadass
Kapil Parmar
Mona Agarwal
Rubina Francis
Swapnil Suresh Kusale
Sarabjot Singh
Abhay Singh
Sajan Prakash
Aman
• Arjuna Awards (Lifetime) for outstanding performance in Sports and Games 2024
Sucha Singh
Murlikant Rajaram Petkar
• Dronacharya Award for outstanding coaches in Sports and Games 2024
• Regular Category:
Subhash Rana (Para-Shooting)
Deepali Deshpande (Shooting)
Sandeep Sangwan (Hockey)
• Lifetime Category:
S Muralidharan (Badminton)
Armando Agnelo Colaco (Football)
• Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar
Physical Education Foundation of India
• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy 2024:
Chandigarh University
(Overall winner University)
Lovely Professional University, (PB)
(1st runner-up University)
Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar (2nd runner-up University)
