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Khel Ratna Awards 2008-09

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awards, Arjuna Awards, Dhyan Chand Award for Lifetime Achievement in Sports, Dronacharya Awards for Outstanding Coaches.

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awards

The Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award is India's highest honour given for achievement in sports. The award is named after the late Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India. It carries a medal, a scroll of honour and a substantial cash component. Up to 2004-05, the cash component was Rs. 5,00,000 but now the money has been increased from Rs 5,00,000 to Rs 7,50,000. The award was instituted in the year 1991-92 to supply the lack of a supreme national accolade in the field of sports.

Recepient (2008-09)	Category (Sport)
MC Mary Kom	Boxing
Vijender Singh	Boxing
Sushil Kumar	Wrestling

Arjuna Awards

The Arjuna Awards were instituted in 1961 by the government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in National sports. The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 500,000, a bronze statuette of Arjuna and a scroll. The Government has recently revised the scheme for the Arjun Award. As per the revised guidelines, to be eligible for the Award, a sportsperson should not only have had good performance consistently for the previous three years at the international level with excellence for the year for which the Award is recommended, but should also have shown qualities of leadership, sportsmanship and a sense of discipline. From the year 2001, the arjuna award is given only in disciplines falling under the following categories:

Olympic Games / Asian Games / Commonwealth Games / World Cup / World Championship Disciplines and Cricket
Indigenous Games
Sports for the Physically Challenged

Recepient (2008-09)	Category (Sport)
Mangal Singh Champia	Archery
K Sinimol Paulose	Athletics
Saina Nehwal	Badminton
L Saritha Devi	Boxing
Tania Sachdeva	Chess
Gautam Gambhir	Cricket
Ignace Tirkey, Surinder Kaur	Hockey
Pankaj Shirsat	Kabaddi
Parul D Parmar	Badminton (disabled)
Satish Joshi	Rowing
Ranjan Sodhi	Shooting
Poulami Ghatak	Table Tennis
Yogeshwar Dutt	Wrestling
G L Yadav	Yachting

Dhyan Chand Award for Lifetime Achievement in Sports

Recepient (2008-09)	Category (Sport)
Ishar Singh Deol	Athletics
Satbir Singh Dahya	Wrestling

Dronacharya Awards for Outstanding Coaches

Recepient (2008-09)	Category (Sport)
Baldev Singh	Hockey
Jaidev Bisht	Boxing
Satpal	Wrestling
Pullela Gopichand	Badminton

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