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Awards and Honours
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Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award-2003
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award is India’s highest sporting
honour. It was instituted from the year 1991-92 in the memory of Late Rajiv
Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India. The award carries a medal and a
scroll of honour apart from a cash component. The objectives of the award is to
enhance the sportspersons general status and also to give them greater dignity
and a place of honour in society, to motivate the sportspersons to give their
highest performance in sports events and to intensify the spread of sports
culture throughout the country.A key difference from the Arjuna award is that
the Arjuna award is given to the best sportsperson in each sport every year,
where as the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna is given to the best sportsperson across
all the sports disciplines in that year. Khel Ratna literally means "Sporting
Gem" in Hindi.
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Arjuna Award-2002
The Arjuna awards were instituted in 1961 by the government
of India to recognize outstanding achievement in National sports.
The Government has recently revised the Scheme for Arjuna Award for
outstanding performance in sports and games. As per the guidelines, to be
eligible for the Award, a sportsperson should have had not only good
performance consistently for the previous three years at the international
level with excellence for the year for which the Award is recommended, but also
have shown qualities of leadership, sportsmanship and a sense of
discipline.
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Padmasree Award-2004
Padma Shree(variously spelled Padma Shri, Padma Sree
and Padma Sri) is an award given by the Government of India (generally to
Indian citizens). It stands fourth in the hierarchy of civilian awards after
the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Like the other
Padma awards and the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Shri is awarded to recognize
distinguished service to the nation, in any field. On its obverse, the words
"Padma" and "Shri", in Devanagari, appear above and below the lotus flower.
(The word "Padma" means lotus.) The geometrical pattern on either side is in
burnished bronze. All embossing is in white gold.
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Mathrubhumi Star of the year-2003
The best female Athlete National
Games-2001 & 2002
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