Khel ratna and Arjuna awards 2008

Overview

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award is India's highest honour given for acheivments in sports.The award is named after former Prime minister of india Late Mr.Rajiv Gandhi.Khel Ratna Award started in year 1991.The Khel Ratna was devised to be an overarching honour, conferred for outstanding sporting performance, whether by an individual or a team, across all sporting disciplines in a given year.As of 2004-05, when the award was last bestowed, the cash component stands at Rs. 500,000/-

Arjuna Award

Arjuna award is institued by india in 1961 to recognize outstanding acheivement of sports.The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 300,000, a bronze statuette of Arjuna and a scroll.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.

Dronacharya Award

Dronacharya Award is an award presented by the government of India for excellence in sports coaching. The award comprises a bronze statuette of Dronacharya, a scroll of honour and a cash component of Rs.300,000. The award was instituted in 1985

The Awardees 2008

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award

M.C. Mary Kom (boxing

Arjuna awards

1. Mangal Singh Champia (archery)
2. Sinimole Paulose (athletics)
3. Saina Nehwal (badminton)
4. Sarita Devi (boxing)
5. Tania Sachdev (chess)
6. Gautam Gambhir (cricket)
7. Ignace Tirkey and Surinder Kaur (hockey)
8. Pankaj Shirsat (kabaddi)
9. Satish Joshi (rowing)
10. Ronjan Sodhi (shooting)
11. Poulomi Ghatak (table tennis)
12. Yogeshwar Dutt (wrestling)
13. Girdhari Lal Yadav (sailing)
14. V. Prabhu (wheelchair tennis).

Dronacharya award

1. Gopi Chand (badminton)
2. Satpal (wrestling)
3. J. Uday Kumar (kabaddi)
4. Baldev Singh (hockey)
5. Jaidev Bisht (boxing).