youth affairs and sports

Arjuna Awards were instituted in 1961.'?




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Dhyan Chand Award for lifetime achievement in sports and games instituted in the
year 2002 is given to honour 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, instituted in 1985, honours eminent Coaches who have
successfully trained sportspersons or teams and enabled them to achieve outstanding
results in international competitions




Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy was instituted in 1956-57. The top
overall performing University in the Inter-University Tournaments is given the
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy, which is a rolling trophy





RASHTRIYA KHEL PROTSAHAN PURUSKAR
With a view to recognize the contribution made to sports development by entities
other than sportspersons and coaches, Government has instituted a new award
entitled Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar from the year 2009.






SPECIAL AWARDS TO WINNERS IN INTERNATIONAL SPORTS EVENTS
AND THEIR COACHES
This scheme was introduced in the year 1986 to encourage and motivate outstanding
sportspersons for even higher achievement and to attract the younger generation to
take sports as a career.


Name of Championship/Game Gold Medal Silver Medal Bronze Medal
First Position Second Position Third Position
Olympic Games 50 lakhs 30 lakhs 20 lakhs
Official World Cups/Asian 10 lakhs 5 lakhs 3 lakhs
Games/Commonwealth Games
Asian and Commonwealth 3 lakhs 2 lakhs 1.5 lakhs
Championships


Cash award is also given to coaches. The coaches who have trained the medal
winners for at least 240 days immediately preceeding the game are eligible for cash
award under the scheme. Award money to a coach is 50% of the award money given
to the sportsperson whom he had coached.










SCHEME OF SPORTS FUND FOR PENSION TO MERITORIOUS SPORTS
PERSONS
This scheme was launched in the year 1994.



(a) Medalists at the Olympic Games 10,000/- p.m.
(b) Gold medalists at the World Cups/ 8,000/- p.m.
World Championships in Olympic and
Asian Games disciplines
(c) Silver or Bronze medalists of the 7,000/- p.m.
World Cups/World Championships
in Olympic and Asian Games disciplines
(d) Gold medallists of the Asian/ 7,000/- p.m.
Commonwealth Games
(e) Silver and Bronze medalists of Asian/ 6,000/- p.m.
Commonwealth Games
(f) Gold medalists of Para-Olympic Games 5,000/- p.m.
(g) Silver medalists of Para-Olympic Games 4,000/- p.m.
(h) Bronze medalists of Para-Olympic Games 3,000/- p.m








The scheme was reviewed in July 2009 to provide for lumpsum ex-gratia assistance to outstanding sportspersons of yesteryears. Provision of pension has been done away with as there is already a
Scheme of Pension for Meritorious Sportspersons. Now, lumpsum ex-gratia assistance
will be given to the sportspersons or their families for medical treatment,
Assistance provided to

1. late Makkhan Singh was Gold Medalist in 4x400 mtrs relay race and also won Silver medal in
400 mtrs in 1962 Jakarta Asian Games.
2.Shri J. Sreedharan, Boxing Coach, for medical treatment as he is
paralysed.
3.Subroto Mukherjee Sports Education Society for conduct of
Golden Jubilee Edition of the Subroto Mukherjee Cup Football Tournament







Ministry formulated a scheme for promotion of sports and games among disabled
during 2009.




The scheme started in 1975, aims at promoting sports amongst women. Under the
scheme, national level competitions are preceded by holding of lower level
competitions (Block, District and State level) for which States/UTs are provided
financial assistance as per norms.Central financial assistance for block level competitions is restricted
to 60% of total blocks where competitions are held in a State and for the remaining
40% of the blocks; the State concerned is advised to share the full expenditure







Scheme of North-East Sports Festival was launched in the year 1986-87 and is
being operated through the Sports Authority of India,every year in one of the North Eastern States by
rotation in collaboration with the concerned State Government. There is no age
restriction for participation in the festival but the participants have to be residents of
the NE States for the last five years.The funds for North-East Games are now provided from the
PYKKA scheme.






WADA, set up with the initiative of the International Olympic Committee.


National Anti Doping Agency (NADA)

National Dope Testing Laboratory

NDTL achieved WADA accreditation in September 2008 after undergoing probation from October,
2006. The NDTL has now become the 35th WADA accredited laboratory in the World
and 6th in the Asian Region.





COMMONWEALTH YOUTH PROGRAMME (CYP): The CYP came into being in
1974

Headquarters: London
Headquarters of CYP Asia Centre: Chandigarh
Present Activities:- The Ministry in collaboration with CYP Asia Centre organizes
every year 3-4 programmes by way of national/regional consultations and workshops
on issues of concern for the youth





Enhancement in assistance to Subroto Mukherjee Sports Education Society :
The Subroto Mukherjee Cup Football Tournaments are being held in India since 1958
and are organized by Subroto Mukherjee Sports Education Society, which is being
managed by the Air Force Sports Control Board. This year the Society is celebrating
Golden Jubilee Edition of the Tournament.







Re-designing of the Statuettes and Trophis for National Sports Awards

Statuettes and trophies of Arjuna Award, Dronacharya Award, Dhyan Chand Award and Tenzing
Norgay Adventure Award have been designed by Shri Gajendra Sahu, a senior faculty
member at the B.K. College of Government Arts and Crafts at Bhubaneswar.


Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Medal and the Rashtriya Khel
Protsahan Puruskar, Shri Mukul Goyal, is an alumnl of IIT Kanpur.


The Trophy for Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar, introduced from
2009 with a view to recognizing the contribution made to sports development by
entities other than sportspersons and coaches.