Annual Report 2011-12.pdf - Performance Management Division
Annual Report 2011-12.pdf - Performance Management Division
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Chapter – 18<br />
SCHEMES RELATING TO INCENTIVES<br />
TO SPORTSPERSONS<br />
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports implements various schemes for giving<br />
incentives to sports persons to take up sports:<br />
1. RAJIV GANDHI KHEL RATNA AWARD<br />
The scheme was launched in the year 1991-92 to honour outstanding sportspersons.<br />
Awardees are given a medal and award money of Rs. 7.5 lakh. During the year <strong>2011</strong>, Shri Gagan<br />
Narang (Shooting) was conferred with Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award by Her Excellency the<br />
th<br />
President of India on National Sports Day i.e., 29 August <strong>2011</strong>. 24 sportspersons have been given<br />
this award since the inception of the scheme.<br />
2. ARJUNA AWARDS<br />
The Arjuna Awards were instituted in 1961. To be eligible for the Award, a sportsperson<br />
should have had not only good performance consistently for the previous three years at the<br />
international level with excellence for the year for which Award is recommended, but also shown<br />
qualities of leadership, sportsmanship and a sense of discipline. The awardees are given a<br />
statuette, a scroll of honour, ceremonial dress and award money of Rs. 5.00 lakh.<br />
As per the provisions of the Scheme, normally not more than 15 awards should be given in<br />
any calendar year. However, keeping in view that Asian Games and Commonwealth Games were<br />
held in the year 2010, wherein the performance of Indian sportspersons was exceptional, the<br />
number of Awards for <strong>2011</strong> was increased to 19.<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2011</strong>-12 ✦ 85
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