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NATIONAL SPORTS AWARDS 2020 S. No. Name of the Awardees NIC Center Name of the Award 1. Sh. Mariyappan T. Bengaluru 2. Ms. Rani Bengaluru RAJIV GANDHI KHEL RATNA AWARD 3. Ms. Manika Batra Pune 4. Sh. Krishan Kumar Hooda (Lifetime) Chandigarh 5. Sh. Kuldeep Kumar Handoo (Regular) Chandigarh 6. Sh. Romesh Pathania (Lifetime) Chandigarh 7. Sh. Shiv Singh (Lifetime) Chandigarh Bengaluru 8. Sh. Jude Felix Sebastian (Regular) 9. Sh. Dharmendra Tiwary (Lifetime) Kolkata 10. Sh. Gaurav Khanna (Regular) Lucknow DRONACHARYA AWARD 11. Sh. Jaspal Rana (Regular) Delhi 12. Sh. Vijay Bhalchandra Munishwar Mumbai (Lifetime) 13. Sh. Yogesh Malviya (Regular) Bhopal 14. Ms. Deepti Sharma Delhi 15. Ms. Divya Kakran Delhi 16. Sh. Manish Narwal Delhi 17. Ms. Manu Bhaker Delhi Sh. Sandeep Delhi 18. 19. Sh. Saurabh Chaudhary Delhi 20. Sh. Sawant Ajay Anant Delhi ARJUNA AWARD 21. Sh. Shiva Keshavan Delhi 22. Sh. Vishesh Bhriguvanshi Delhi 23. Sh. Dattu Baban Bhokanal Pune 24. Sh. Rahul Aware Pune 25. Subedar Manish Kaushik Pune 26. Sh. Suyash Narayan Jadhav Pune 27. Sh. Chirag Mumbai Chandrasekhar Shetty 28. Ms. Kale Sarika Sudhakar Mumbai NATIONAL SPORTS AWARDS 2020 S. No. Name of the Awardees NIC Center Name of the Award 29. Ms. Madhurika Suhas Patkar Mumbai 30. Ms. Lovlina Borgohain Chandigarh 31. Sh. Sandesh Jhingan Chandigarh 32. Sh. Deepak Sonepat ARJUNA AWARD 33. Sh. Atanu Das Kolkata 34. Ms. Dutee Chand Kolkata 35. Sh. Akashdeep Singh Bengaluru 36. Sh. Ajit Singh Chandigarh 37. Sh. Kuldip Singh Bhullar Chandigarh 38. Ms. Jincy Philip Bengaluru 39. Sh. J. Ranjith Kumar Bengaluru Ms. Trupti Murgunde Bengaluru 40. 41. Sh. Pradeep Shrikrishna Gandhe Mumbai 42. Sh. Satyaprakash Tiwari Mumbai Sh. Manjeet Singh Hyderabad 43. DHYANCHAND AWARD 44. Ms. N. Usha Hyderabad 45. Sh. Manpreet Singh Sonepat 46. Sh. Netarpal Hooda Delhi 47. Sh. Nandan P Bal Pune 48. Late Shri Sachin Nag Represented by- Kolkata Sh. Ashok Nag (Son) 49. Col. Sarfraz Singh Itanagar 50. Sh. Taka Tamut Itanagar 51. Late Shri Magan Bissa Delhi TENZING NORGAY NATIONAL Represented by- ADVENTURE AWARDS 2019 Dr. Sushma Bissa (Wife) 52. Ms. Anita Devi Sonepat 53. Sh. Keval Hiren Kakka Mumbai 54. Sh. Satendra Singh Bhopal 55. PANJAB UNIVERSITY, CHANDIGARH Chandigarh MAULANA ABUL KALAM AZAD (MAKA) TROPHY NATIONAL SPORTS AWARDS 2020 S.No. Name of the Awardees NIC Center Name of the Award 56. Army Sports Institute Pune 57. Lakshya Institute Pune RASHTRIYA KHEL 58. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Delhi PROTSAHAN PURUSKAR 59. Air Force Sports Control Board Delhi 60. International Institute of Sports Mumbai Management (IISM) Time:22:30 Date: 28/08/2020 .

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