{"id":39818,"date":"2012-08-19T20:47:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T00:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/?p=9313"},"modified":"2012-08-19T20:47:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T00:47:34","slug":"arjuna-awards-for-bombayla-sonia-bimoljit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2012\/08\/19\/arjuna-awards-for-bombayla-sonia-bimoljit\/","title":{"rendered":"Arjuna Awards for   Bombayla, Sonia, Bimoljit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government has announced the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award and Arjuna Awards for the year 2012, here today.<br \/>\nA large number of nominations were received for these awards this year, which were considered by Selection Committee consisting of eminent sportspersons and sports administrators; headed by Col Rajya Vardhan Singh Rathore. Based on the recommendations of the Committee and after due scrutiny, the Government has approved to confer awards upon the following sportspersons.<br \/>\nA. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award &#8211; 2012:<br \/>\nShri Vijay Kumar, Shooting<br \/>\nShri Yogeshwar Dutt, Wrestling<br \/>\nB. Arjuna Awards 2012:<br \/>\nMs. Deepika Kumari, Archery<br \/>\nMs. Laishram Bombayla Devi, Archery<br \/>\nMs. Sudha Singh, Athletics<br \/>\nMs. Kavita Ramdas Raut, Athletics<br \/>\nMs. Ashwani Ponnappa, Badminton<br \/>\nMr. Parupalli Kashyap, Badminton<br \/>\nMr. Aditya S. Mehta, Billiards &amp; Snooker<br \/>\nMr. Vikas Krishan, Boxing<br \/>\nMr. Yuvraj Singh, Cricket<br \/>\nMr. Sardar Singh, Hockey<br \/>\nMr. Yashpal Solanki, Judo<br \/>\nMr. Anup Kumar, Kabaddi<br \/>\nMr. Samir Suhag, Polo<br \/>\nMs. Annu Raj Singh, Shooting<br \/>\nMr. Omkar Singh, Shooting<br \/>\nMr. Joydeep Karmakar, Shooting<br \/>\nMs. Deepika Pallikal, Squash<br \/>\nMr. Sandeep Sejwal, Swimming<br \/>\nMs. Ng. Sonia Chanu, Weightlifting<br \/>\nMr. Narsingh Yadav, Wrestling<br \/>\nMr. Rajinder Kumar, Wrestling<br \/>\nMs. Geeta Phogat, Wrestling<br \/>\nMr. M. Bimoljit Singh, Wushu<br \/>\nMrs. Deepa Mallick, Athletics \u2013 Paralympics<br \/>\nMr. Ramkaran Singh, Athletics \u2013 Paralympics<br \/>\nNormally  only one award of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna  is given every year to an individual sportsperson. However, the Scheme provides that this condition can be relaxed in exceptional circumstances viz., winning of an Olympic medal. Like wise for the Arjuna Awards, normally not more than 15 awards are to be given in any calendar year.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/arjuna-awards-for-bombayla-sonia-bimoljit\/\">http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/arjuna-awards-for-bombayla-sonia-bimoljit\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government has announced the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award and Arjuna Awards for the year 2012, here today. A large number of nominations were received for these awards this year, which were considered by Selection Committee consisting of eminent sportspersons and sports administrators; headed by Col Rajya Vardhan Singh Rathore. Based on the recommendations [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[985,4],"tags":[986,44],"class_list":["post-39818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manipur-mail","category-news","tag-manipur-mail-2","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}