{"id":19232,"date":"2024-01-12T08:17:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T02:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19232"},"modified":"2025-04-05T16:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T10:38:25","slug":"nsaa-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nsaa-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"National Sports and Adventure Awards 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About National Sports and Adventure Awards 2023<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>National Sports Awards are given\u00a0every year to recognize and reward\u00a0excellence in sports.<\/li>\n<li>Categories of National Sports Award\n<ul>\n<li>Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award: It is\u00a0considered India\u2019s highest sporting honour, the Khel Ratna was\u00a0established in 1991-92.<\/li>\n<li>The award is named after the Indian hockey legend, Major Dhyan Chand<\/li>\n<li>The award is given for outstanding performances in sports\u00a0spanning over a period of four years\u00a0and the Khel Ratna winners receive a medallion, certificate and a cash prize.<\/li>\n<li>Arjuna Award:\u00a0It is awarded for consistent\u00a0good performance over a\u00a0period of four years. The winners of the Arjuna Award receive a statuette of Arjuna, a certificate and a cash prize.<\/li>\n<li>Dronacharya Award: It was\u00a0instituted in 1985, is India\u2019s highest\u00a0sports honour for coaches. It is awarded to individuals for producing medal winners at prestigious international events.Awardees receive a bronze statue of Dronacharya, a certificate and a cash prize.<\/li>\n<li>Major Dhyan Chand Award: This award\u00a0represents India\u2019s highest honour for\u00a0lifetime achievements in sports. Presented for good performance and contributing towards the promotion of sports in an individual capacity since 2002, the winners get a Dhyan Chand statuette, a certificate and a cash prize.<\/li>\n<li>Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy (MAKA): It was instituted in 1956\u20131957. It is given to\u00a0an institution or university for top performance in inter-university tournaments over the\u00a0last one year.<\/li>\n<li>Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar:\u00a0Awarded to\u00a0organisations or corporates (both private and public) and individuals for playing a role in the area of sports promotion and development over the\u00a0last three years, the Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar has been a fixture in the National Sports Awards list since 2009.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Who is Maulana Abul Kalam Azad?<\/h3>\n<p>He is theologian who was one of the leaders of the Indian independence movement against British rule in the first half of the 20th century. He was highly respected throughout his life as a man of high moral integrity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=President-Droupadi-Murmu-to-present-National-Sports-Awards-at-Rashtrapati-Bhavan&amp;id=474808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>President Droupadi Murmu presents National Sports and Adventure Awards 2023 at Rashtrapati Bhavan<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Sports and Adventure Awards are given every year to recognize and reward excellence in sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19232","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}