ARJUNA AWARD
ARJUNA AWARD
The Arjuna Awards are given by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in National sports. Instituted in 1961, the award carries a cash prize of 500,000, a bronze statuette of Arjuna and a scroll.
Over the years the scope of the award has been expanded and a large number of sports persons who belonged to the pre-Arjun Award era were also included in the list. Further, the number of disciplines for which the award is given was increased to include indigenous games and the physically handicapped category.
The Government has recently revised the scheme for the Arjun Award. As per the revised guidelines, to be eligible for the Award, a sportsperson should not only have had good performance consistently for the previous three years at the international level with excellence for the year for which the Award is recommended, but should also have shown qualities of leadership, sportsmanship and a sense of discipline.
From the year 2001, the award is given only in disciplines falling under the following categories:
Olympic Games / Asian Games / Commonwealth Games / World Cup /
World Championship Disciplines and Cricket
Indigenous Games
Sports for the Physically Challenged
In mid-August 2011, 19 athletes were announced as Arjuna recipients; the high number due to the inclusion of both the 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2010 Asian Games in the Arjuna qualifying year.
Arjuna Awards in Badminton
No. Year Name
1 1961 Nandu Natekar
2 1962 Meena Shah
3 1965 Dinesh Khanna
4 1967 Suresh Goel
5 1969 Dipu Ghosh
6 1970 Damayanti Tambay
7 1971 Shobha Moorthy
8 1972 Prakash Padukone
9 1974 Raman Ghosh
10 1975 Davinder Ahuja
11 1976 Ami Ghia
12 1977-78 Kanwal Thakur Singh
13 1980-81 Syed Modi
14 1982 Partho Ganguli
15 1982 Madhumita Bisht
16 1991 Rajeev Bagga
17 2000 Pullela Gopichand
18 1999 George Thomas
19 2002 Ramesh Tikaram
20 2003 Madasu Srinivas Rao
21 2004 Abhinn Shyam Gupta
22 2005 Aparna Popat
23 2006 Chetan Anand
24 2006Rohit Bhakar (Phy.Challenged)
25 2008 Anup Sridhar
26 2009 Saina Nehwal
27 2011 Jwala Gutta
28 2012 Ashwini Ponnappa
29 2012 Parupalli Kashyap
30 2013 P.V. Sindhu
31 2014 V. Diju
Arjun Awardees in Cricket
No. YR Name
1 1961 Saleem Durani
2 1964 Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi
3 1965 Vijay Manjrekar
4 1966 Chandu Borde
5 1967 Ajit Wadekar
6 1968 E.A.S. Prasanna
7 1969 Bishan Singh Bedi
8 1970 Dilip Sardesai
9 1971 Srinivasaraghavan -
Venkataraghavan
10 1972 Eknath Solkar
11 1972 B.S. Chandrashekhar
12 1975Sunil Gavaskar
13 1976Shanta Rangaswamy
14 1977-78Gundappa Vishwanath
15 1979-80Kapil Dev Nikhanj
16 1980-81Chetan Chauhan
17 1980-81Syed Kirmani
18 1981Dilip Vengsarkar
19 1982Mohinder Amarnath
20 1983Diana Edulji
21 1984Ravi Shastri
22 1985Shubhangi Kulkarni
23 1986Mohammad Azharuddin
24 1986Sandhya Agarwal
25 1989Madan Lal
26 1993Manoj Prabhakar
27 1993Kiran More
28 1994Sachin Tendulkar
29 1995Anil Kumble
30 1996Javagal Srinath
31 1997Ajay Jadeja
32 1997Sourav Ganguly
33 1998Rahul Dravid
34 1998Nayan Mongia
35 2000Venkatesh Prasad
36 2001VVS Laxman[6]
37 2002Virender Sehwag
38 2003Harbhajan Singh
39 2003Mithali Raj
40 2005Anju Jain
41 2006Anjum Chopra
42 2009Gautam Gambhir
43 2010Jhulan Goswami
44 2011Zaheer Khan
45 2012Yuvraj Singh
46 2013Virat Kohli
47 2014Ravichandran Ashwin
Arjun Awardees in Football
No.YR Name
1 1961P. K. Banerjee
2 1962Tulsidas Balaram
3 1963Chuni Goswami
4 1964Jarnail Singh
5 1965Arun Lal Ghosh
6 1966Yusuf Khan
7 1967Peter Thangaraj
8 1969Inder Singh
9 1970Syed Naeemuddin
10 1971C. P. Singh
11 1973Magan Singh
12 1978-79Gurdev Singh Gill
13 1979-80Prasun Banerjee
14 1980-81Mohammed Habib
15 1981Sudhir Karmakar
16 1983Shanti Mullick
17 1989S. Bhattacharjee
18 1997Brahmanand Sankhwalkar
19 1998Baichung Bhutia
20 2002Bruno Coutinho
21 2003 I. M. Vijayan
22 2010Deepak Kumar Mondal
23 2011Sunil Chettri
Arjun Awardees in Hockey
No.Yr Name
1 1961Prithipal Singh
2 1961Ann Lumsden
3 1963Charanjit Singh
4 1964S. Laxman
5 1965Udham Singh
6 1965E. Britto
7 1966V. J. Peter
8 1966Sunita Puri
9 1966Gurbaksh Singh
10 1967Harbinder Singh
11 1967Mohinder Lal
12 1968Balbir Singh Kular
13 1970Ajit Pal Singh
14 1971P. Krishnamurthy
15 1972Michael Kindo
16 1973 M. P. Ganesh
17 1973 O. Mascarenhas
18 1974Ashok Kumar
19 1974A. Kaur
20 1975B. P. Govinda
21 1975R. Saini
22 1977-78Capt. Harcharan Singh
23 1977-78L. L. Fernandes
24 1979-80Vasudevan Baskaran
25 1979-80R. B. Mundphan
26 1980-81Mohammed Shahid
27 1980-81Eliza Nelson
28 1981Versha Soni
29 1983Zafar Iqbal
30 1984Rajbir Kaur
31 1984S. Maney
32 1985Prem Maya Sonir
33 1985M. M. Somaya
34 1986J.M. Carvalho
35 1988M. P. Singh
36 1989Pargat Singh
37 1990Jagbir Singh
38 1992Mervyn Fernandes
39 1994Jude Felix Sabastain
40 1995Dhanraj Pillai
41 1995Mukesh Kumar
42 1996A. B. Subbaiah
43 1996Ashish Kumar Ballal
44 1997Harmik Singh
45 1997Surinder Singh Sodhi
46 1997Rajinder Singh
47 1998S. Surjit Singh
48 1998Pritam Rani Siwach
49 1998B. S. Dhillon
50 1998S. Omana Kumari
51 1998Mohammed Riaz
52 1998Baldev Singh
53 1998Maharaj Krishna Kaushik
54 1999Balbir Singh Kullar
55 1998Lt. Col. Haripal Kaushik
56 1998Ramandeep Singh
57 1998V. J. Phillips
58 2000Baljeet Singh Saini
59 2000Tingonleima Chanu
60 2000Gp. Capt. R. S. Bhola
61 2000Balkishan Singh
62 2000Jalaluddin Rizvi
63 2000Madhu Yadav
64 2002Dilip Tirkey
65 2002Gagan Ajit Singh
66 2002Mamta Kharab
67 2003Devesh Chauhan
68 2003Suraj Lata Devi
69 2004Deepak Thakur
70 2004Innocent Helen Mary
71 2005Viren Rasquinha
72 2006Jyoti Sunita Kullu
73 2008Prabhjot Singh
74 2009Surinder Kaur
75 2009Ignace Tirkey
76 2010Jasjeet Kaur Handa
77 2011Rajpal Singh
78 2012Sardar Singh
79 2013Saba Anjum Karim
Arjun Awardees in Shooting
No.Yr Name
1 1961Karni Singh
2 1968Rajyashree Kumari
3 1969Bhuvaneshwari Kumari
4 1971Bhim Singh
5 1972Udyan Chinubhai
6 1978-79Randhir Singh
7 1981S. P. Chauhan
8 1983Mohinder Lal
9 1983Soma Dutta
10 1985A. J. Pandit
11 1986Bhagirath Samai
12 1993Mansher Singh
13 1994Jaspal Rana
14 1996Moraad A. Khan
15 1997Satendra Kumar
16 1997Shilpi Singh
17 1997Naresh Kumar Sharma (PH)
18 1998Manavjit Singh
19 1998Roopa Unnikrishnan
20 1999Vivek Singh
21 2000Anjali Vedpathak Bhagwat
22 2000Abhinav Bindra
23 2000Gurbir Singh
24 2002Anwer Sultan
25 2002Suma Shirur
26 2003Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
27 2004Deepali A. Deshpande
28 2005Gagan Narang
29 2006Vijay Kumar
30 2008Avneet Kaur Sidhu
31 2009Ronjan Sodhi
32 2010Sanjeev Rajput
33 2011Tejaswini Sawant
34 2012Annu Raj Singh
35 2012Omkar Singh
36 2012Joydeep Karmakar
37 2013Rajkumari Rathore
38 2014Heena Sidhu
