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ranjitjat
September 2nd, 2003, 04:57 AM
Khel Ratna for Anjali, Beenamol; Arjuna for 21

New Delhi, August 22
Bowing to pressure from various quarters, the government today deviated from its existing policy and selected two sportpersons — athlete K.M. Beenamol and shooter Anjali Bhagwat — for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, the country’s highest sporting honour.

The government also named 21 sportspersons for the Arjuna Award 2002, accepting in toto the original recommendations of the Arjuna Awards Committee, which had triggered off a controversy by submitting a list with recommendations in excess of the number stipulated in guidelines.

Five sportspersons have been named for the Dhyan Chand Award for lifetime achievent while an equal number were selected for the Dronacharya Award.

The government, which had earlier asked the Arjuna Awards Committee to reconvene and prune the list in accordance to government policy, sprung a suprise by announcing all the names submitted in the first list.

Taking into account the performance of Indian athletes during last year, the Sports Ministry decided to approve all the names as a “one-time relaxation” of the existing provisions of the schemes.

It will be after six years that two sportspersons will share the prestigious Khel Ratna award which will carry a cash award of Rs 5 lakh, a medallion and a scroll of honour.

Tennis star Leander Paes and weightlifter Kunjarani Devi had shared the award in 1996-97.

Anjali too had a remarkable year during which she became the only woman shooter from the country to have qualified for next year’s Olympics in Athnes.

The ace air-rifle shooter won four gold medals at the Manchester Commonwealth Games and a silver in the Busan Asiad and at the Atlanta World Cup. She also won the “Champion of Champions 2002” award.

The President will give away the awards at a ceremonial function at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on August 29.

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award Anjali Bhagwat (shooting), K.M. Beenamol (athletics) Arjuna Awards Anju B George (athletics), Alok Kumar (billiards and snooker), Md Ali Qamar (boxing), K. Sasikiran (chess) I.M. Vijayan (football), Shiv Kapur (golf), Gagan Ajit Singh (hockey-men), Ram Mehar Singh (kabaddi), Anwar Sultan (shooting), Suma Shirur (shooting), Montu Ghosh (TT), Ravikant Reddy (volleyball), T Muthu (weightlifting), Palwinder Singh Cheema (wrestling), Nitin Mongia (yachting), Mamta Kharab (hockey-woman), Virender Sehwag (cricket), Saraswati Saha (athletics), Inderpal Singh (rowing), Sujit Mann (wrestling), Ramesh Tikaram (badminton and athletics — handicap category).

Dhyanchand Award: Ram Kumar (basketball), Dharma Singh Mann (hockey), Charles Cornelius (hockey), Om Prakash (volleyball), Smita Yadav (rowing).

Dronacharya Award: Renu Kohli (athletics), Jaswant Singh (athletics), M.K. Kaushik (hockey), E. Prasad Rao (kabaddi), H.D. Motivala (yachting).

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy: Guru Nanak Dev Universisty, Amritsar. — PTI

ranjitjat
September 2nd, 2003, 08:10 PM
Many congtns to all
Virender shewag, Mamta Kharab. you all know.
Rammeharsingh captain Indian Khabadi team is from Bhiwani.
Inderjit singh, Ramkumar, Omparkash are all jats.
Cheema, Sujit Mann. Gagan Ajitsingh are sikh jats from Panjab.

rksehrawat
May 28th, 2004, 07:18 PM
Respected Dudeeji,

While going through this thread I observed that you have mentioned Sujit Maan as sikh jat. He is not a sikh but very much a Hindu jaat from village Lowa Sidipur near Bahadurgarh bordering New Delhi and a stone's throw from village Issarheri from where hails Mr. India of this year.




Dharmpal Singh Dudee (Sep 02, 2003 10:40 a.m.):
Many congtns to all
Virender shewag, Mamta Kharab. you all know.
Rammeharsingh captain Indian Khabadi team is from Bhiwani.
Inderjit singh, Ramkumar, Omparkash are all jats.
Cheema, Sujit Mann. Gagan Ajitsingh are sikh jats from Panjab.