Manu Bhaker, Gukesh, Harmanpreet and Praveen to get Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2024

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

Manu Bhaker. 

 

Rakesh Thapliyal

New Delhi: Double Olympic medalist Shooter Manu Bhaker, World Chess champion D Gukesh, Olympic bronze medal winner Indian Hockey team captain Harmanpreet Singh, Para Athlete Praveen Kumar will get the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2024.

D Gukesh, World Chess champion. 

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

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.

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
	Ms. Jyothi Yarraji	Athletics
	Ms. Annu Rani	Athletics
	Ms. Nitu	Boxing
	Ms. Saweety	Boxing
	Ms. Vantika Agrawal	Chess
	Ms. Salima Tete	Hockey
	Shri Abhishek	Hockey
	Shri Sanjay	Hockey
	Shri Jarmanpreet Singh	Hockey
	Shri Sukhjeet Singh	Hockey
	Shri Rakesh Kumar	Para-Archery
	Ms. Preeti Pal	Para-Athletics
	Ms. Jeevanji Deepthi	Para-Athletics
	Shri Ajeet Singh	Para-Athletics
	Shri Sachin Sarjerao Khilari	Para-Athletics
	Shri Dharambir	Para-Athletics
	Shri Pranav Soorma	Para-Athletics
	Shri H Hokato Sema	Para-Athletics
	Ms. Simran	Para-Athletics
	Shri Navdeep	Para-Athletics
	Shri Nitesh Kumar	Para-Badminton
	Ms. Thulasimathi Murugesan	Para-Badminton
	Ms. Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan	Para-Badminton
	Ms. Manisha Ramadass	Para-Badminton
	Shri Kapil Parmar	Para-Judo
	Ms. Mona Agarwal	Para-Shooting
	Ms. Rubina Francis	Para-Shooting
	Shri Swapnil Suresh Kusale	Shooting
	Shri Sarabjot Singh	Shooting
	Shri Abhay Singh	Squash
	Shri Sajan Prakash	Swimming
	Shri Aman	Wrestling

 

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

S. No.	Name of the Sportsperson	Discipline
	Shri Sucha Singh	Athletics
	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
	Shri Subhash Rana	Para-Shooting
	Ms. Deepali Deshpande	Shooting
	Shri Sandeep Sangwan	Hockey

1. Lifetime Category:

S. No.	Name of the Coach	Discipline
	Shri S Muralidharan	Badminton
	Shri Armando Agnelo Colaco	Football

 

1. Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar

S. No.	Name of the Entity
	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