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One major issue is the number of awards given. Take the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awardees. When it was instituted in the early 1990s, it was originally meant to be given for anyone who had reached the acme in her or his discipline and was meant to be given to only one sportsperson a year, barring ‘exceptional circumstances’.
By Joy BhattacharjyaIt’s been an embarrassment of riches for the Indian sporting fraternity in a year that has seen little or no sporting action. Last Friday, the Union sports ministry announced 27 Arjuna Awards and five Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awards across disciplines, leading a former Khel Ratna winner to quip on social media that there will definitely be more awardees than audience this year.While there were many that were well deserved, the
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