Esteemed State awards in the field of sports for the year 2016 were announced on Thursday by the Directorate of Sports and Youth Welfare, Madhya Pradesh.
This year 14 junior players would be felicitated with Eklayva awards, 10 senior players would be awarded with Vikram award and two trainers would be awarded with Vishwamitra award for the year 2016. The awardees would be felicitated on November 10, 2016 in the state capital.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.