The National Sports Award ceremony passed off on Monday on the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi. President Droupadi Murmu conferred the distinguished Khel Ratna award to badminton gamers Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty and the Arjuna award for 26 sports activities individuals, together with pacer Mohammed Shami. Chirag and Satwik are Asian Games gold medallists, World Championships bronze winners, and Commonwealth Games silver medallists. On the opposite hand, Shami was India’s highest wicket-taker on the ODI World Cup 2023, the place he scalped 24 wickets.

What is the prize cash of Khel Ratna?

The Khel Ratna awardees get a whopping complete of Rs 25 lakhs, together with a trophy and a certificates. This prize cash was elevated from Rs 7.5 lakhs to 25 lakhs in 2020.

What is the prize cash of the Arjuna Award?

The awardees of the Arjuna Award get Rs 15 lakh. This prize cash was revised from Rs 5 lakhs to fifteen lakhs in 2020. Apart from this, the Dhyan Chand Award winners get Rs 10 lakhs, which was elevated from Rs 5 lakhs in 2020.

What is the prize cash of the Dronacharya Award?

The Dronacharya Award is given to honor the laborious work and contribution made by the coaches. This award is split into two classes. In the Regular class, the awardees get Rs 10 lakhs whereas the awardees within the Lifetime class, get Rs 15 lakhs.

Arjuna Awards for 2023: Ojas Pravin Deotale (archery), Aditi Gopichand Swami (archery), Murali Sreeshankar (athletics), Parul Chaudhary (athletics), Mohameed Hussamuddin (boxing), R Vaishali (chess), Mohammed Shami (cricket), Anush Agarwalla (equestrian), Divyakriti Singh (equestrian dressage), Diksha Dagar (golf), Krishan Bahadur Pathak (hockey), Sushila Chanu (hockey), Pawan Kumar (kabaddi), Ritu Negi (kabaddi), Nasreen (kho-kho), Pinki (garden bowls), Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (capturing), Esha Singh (capturing), Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (squash), Ayhika Mukherjee (desk tennis), Sunil Kumar (wrestling), Antim (wrestling), Naorem Roshibina Devi (wushu), Sheetal Devi (para archery), Illuri Ajay Kumar Reddy (blind cricket), Prachi Yadav (para canoeing).

Dronacharya Award (common class) for excellent coaches:Lalit Kumar (wrestling), RB Ramesh (chess), Mahaveer Prasad Saini (para athletics), Shivendra Singh (hockey), Ganesh Prabhakar Devrukhkar (mallakhamb).

Dronacharya Award (life-time class) for excellent coaches: Jaskirat Singh Grewal (golf), Bhaskaran E (kabaddi), Jayanta Kumar Pushilal (desk tennis).

Dhyan Chand Award for lifetime achievement: Manjusha Kanwar (badminton), Vineet Kumar Sharma (hockey), Kavitha Selvaraj (kabaddi).

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy 2023:Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar (total winner college); Lovely Professional University, Punjab (1st runner -up), Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (2nd runner-up).