The Madhya Pradesh Sports Award felicitation programme would be organized on Thursday. The selected players and coaches of Madhya Pradesh would be bestowed with Vikram Award, Eklavya Award, Vishwamitra Award and the lifetime Achievement Award 2016 for their contribution in the sports.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan would be the chief guest of the ceremony while Minister of State for Sports and Youth Welfare Yashodhara Raje Scindia would chair the award ceremony.
International Badminton Coach Pullela Gopichand and Olympics’ silver medalist player, PV Sindhu would be the special guests of the award ceremony.
As many as 14 junior players would be awarded with the Eklavya Award while around 10 senior players would receive the Vikram Award. As many as two coaches would felicitate with the Vishwamitra Award.
Apart from this awards one sports personality would be felicitated posthumously for development and encouragement of sports with life time achievement award. Out of the 14 players, eight girl players and six boy players would be felicitated with Eklayva awards. Five players from Bhopal, three players from Indore, two players from Jabalpur and one each from Gwalior, Dewas, Ashok Nagar and Ujjain.
The Eklayva award-2016 would be awarded to Mohik Gajdhar(Soft Tennis) Dewas, Chiniki Yadav(Shooting) Bhopal, Neha Rajput (Wushu) Ashok Nagar, Atul Mishra (Kayaking-Canoeing) Bhopal, Annie Jain(Swimming) Indore, Arunima Shrivastava (Fencing) Bhopal, Paridhi Joshi(Equestrian) Indore, Satyam Sharma( Karate) Bhopal, Anand Thakur( Sailing) Jabalpur, Mayank Patel (Cycling) Jabalpur, Rahul Batham(Cricket) Bhopal, Divya Thepe (Hockey) Gwalior, Sonali Bisht (Soft Ball) Indore, Soumya Agrawal (Jump rope) Ujjain. Out of the 10 players selected for Vikram awards five girl players and five boy players would be felicitated. Namita Chandel (Kayaking- Canoeing) Bhopal, Purvi Soni (Wushu) Jabalpur, Shalini Sankat (Shooting) Bhopal, Rishbah Mehta( Equestrian) Indore, Shravya Dronadula (Taekwondo) Bhopal, Sameer Verma( Badmitton) Dhar, Neetu Singh( Kabbadi) Jabalpur, Ankit Chintaman( Kho- Kho) Indore, Kamal Kuswaha(Throw Ball) Bhopal, Ravi Surariya(Cycling – Specially Able) have been selected for Vikram award. For Vishwamitra award -2016 Sudesh Saangte (Soft Tennis) Dewas and Virendra Pawar (Taekwondo) Indore have been selected. Paramjeet Singh (Hockey Coach) Gwalior has been selected for life time achievement award.
Sports Director Upendra Jain has reviewed the preparations and arrangements of the award ceremony. Jain inspected the venue of the programme along with the other officials and instructed the officials regarding various arrangements for the ceremony.