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Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports , India has announced the name of recipients of National Sports Awards 2021. The awardees will receive their awards on 13th November, 2021 at the Darbar Hall of Rastrapati Bhavan. The awards will be given by the honorable President of India.

The awards are –

1.Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award – This award is provided to the most outstanding perfomance in the sports over a period of four years. This year 12 sportspersons will be awarded with this award –

The list for this year –

i. Neeraj Chopra – Athletics.

ii . Ravi Kumar – Wrestling.

iii .Lovlina Borgohain – Boxing

iv. Sreejesh P.R. – Hockey

v. Avani Lekhara – Para Shooting

vi. Sumit Antil – Para Athletics

vii. Pramod Bhagat – Para Badminton

viii. Krishna Nagar – Para Badminton

ix. Manish Narwal – Para Shooting

x. Mithali Raj – Cricket

xi. Sunil Chhetri – Football

xii. Manpreet Singh – Hockey

2. Arjuna Award – This award is provided to the sports persons having consistent outstanding performance in sports over four years . This year 35 sports persons are selected for this award.

They are –

1.Arpinder Singh -Athletics

5. Monica – Hockey

6.Vandana Katariya – Hockey

7. Sandeep Narwal – Kabaddi

8.Himani Uttam Parab – Mallakhamb

9.Abhishek Verma- Shooting

11 . Deepak Punia -Wrestling

13. Harmanpreet Singh – Hockey

19. Nilakanta Sharma -Hockey

21. Vivek Sagar Prasad – Hockey

23. Mandeep Singh – Hockey

24. Shamsher Singh – Hockey

25. Lalit Kumar Upadhyay – Hockey

26. Varun Kumar – Hockey

30. Praveen Kumar – Para Athletics

33. Bhavina Patel – Para Table Tennis

3. Dronacharya Award – This award is provided to the outstanding coaches for doing outstanding and meritorious work consistently to enable sports persons to excel in International Sports events. This award is distributed in two categories –

a. Life -Time Category – in this category the award will be given to 5 Coaches this year. They are –

1.T.P. Ouseph – Athletics

2. Sarkar Talwar – Cricket

3. Sarpal Singh – Hockey

4. Ashan Kumar – Kabaddi

5. Tapan Kumar Panigrahi – Swimming

b. Regular Category – in this category the award will be given to 5 Coaches this year. They are –

1. Radhakrishnan Nair P – Athletics

2. Sandhya Gurung – Boxing

3. Pritam Siwach – Hockey

4. Jai Prakash Nautiyal – Para Shooting

5. Subramanian Raman – Table Tennis

4. Dhyan Chand Award – This award is provided for the life time contribution to the development of sports. 5 sports persons will be awarded this year with this award. They are –

1. Lekha K.C.- Boxing

2.Abhijeet Kunte – Chess

3. Davinder Singh Garcha – Hockey

4. Vikas Kumar – Kabaddi

5. Sajjan Singh – Wrestling

6. Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar – This award is provided to the corporate houses or individuals having a visible contribution to the development and promotion of sports. The awardees are –

i. Category – Identification and Nurturing of Budding and Young Talent – Manav Rachna Educational Institution

ii. Category – Encouragement to sports through Corporate Social Responsibility – Indian Oil Corporation Limited

7. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy – This the award provided to the overall top performing University in inter -university tournaments. The winner for this year is –

Punjab University , Chandigarh.

A. Read the passage above and answer the questions below – 1×4=4

1. On which day the National Sports Awards will be awarded to the selected sports persons this year ?

2. How many sports persons are selected for Arjuna Award this year ?

3. Where the National Sports Award 2021 , ceremony will be happened?

4. Which University will be awarded by the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy this year ?

B. Complete the sentences from the text – 1×4=4

1.National Sports Award will be given by —————————————————————————————————————

2. Dronacharya Award is given to outstanding —————-

3.Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar in Corporate Social Responsibility Category will be given to ——————————————————————————————————–

4. The award which is provided for the life time contributions to the development of sports, is ——————————————————————————————————–

C. Write the antonyms – 1×4=4

1. Recipient –

2.Visible –

3. Consistent –

4. Promotion –

D. Write the words having almost same meaning – 1×2=2

1. Honour-

2. Function-

E. Write the ‘noun’ form of ‘Responsibility’ ————

1

F. Write the ‘Adjective’ form of ‘ Encouragement’——————– 1

G. Write a suitable title for the text above and give a reason to choose the title . 2

H. Write a Paragraph on Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. 10

I. Write a Precis for the passage above. 10

J. Write a Newspaper report on the National Sports Award 2021. 10