{"id":1718,"date":"2026-08-19T12:35:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T07:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2026-08-19T12:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T07:14:35","slug":"national-sports-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-sports-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"National Sports Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>National Sports Awards Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Ministry of Youth Affairs &amp; Sports announced the National Sports Awards 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About National Sports Awards<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The National Sports Awards are <\/span><b>given every year<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to recognize and <\/span><b>reward excellence in sports.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Nodal Ministry:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Arjuna Award<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is given for good <\/span><b>performance over<\/b> <b>a period of the previous four years<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and for showing qualities of leadership, sportsmanship and a sense of discipline.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Arjuna Awards (Lifetime)<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is given to honour and motivate those<\/span><b> sportspersons<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who have contributed to sports by their performance and continue to contribute to promotion of <\/span><b>sports even after their retirement from active sporting careers.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Dronacharya Award<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is given to <\/span><b>coaches for doing outstanding and meritorious<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> work on a consistent basis and for enabling sportspersons to excel in International events.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u2018Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar\u2019 is given <\/span><b>to corporate entities (Public\/Private<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), <\/span><b>non<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211;<\/span><b>governmental organizations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (NGOs), who have played a visible role in the area of sports promotion and development.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseDetail.aspx?PRID=2300762&amp;reg=48&amp;lang=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Sports Awards  are given every year to recognize and reward excellence in sports. Read more about National Sports Awards, Ministry, Category, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":119905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-national-sports-awards","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119934,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions\/119934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}