Annual Report 2011-12.pdf - Performance Management Division

5. MAULANA ABUL KALAM AZAD (MAKA) TROPHY
The 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. A small replica of the MAKA Trophy is also
awarded for retention by the University. Winner University gets the Rolling Trophy and award
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money of Rs. 10 lakh, 2 and 3 position universities get award money of Rs. 5 lakh and Rs. 3 lakh
respectively.
For 2010-11, Punjabi University, Patiala has been declared as the overall winner university for
being awarded MAKA, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar as the first runner-up university
and Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, as the second runner-up university.
6. Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar
With a view to recognizing the contribution made to sports development by entities other than
sportspersons and coaches, Government has instituted from 2009 a new award entitled Rashtriya
Khel Protsahan Puruskar, which has four categories, namely, community sports development,
promotion of sports academies of excellence, support to elite sportspersons and employment to
sportspersons.
Following entities were conferred the Rashtriya Khel Protasahan Puruskar for the year 2011 by
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Her Excellency the President of India on National Sports Day i.e., 29 August 2011:
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