The State level sports awards were announced on Friday by Principal Secretary Sports Pankaj Rag and Director Sports and Youth Welfare Pawan Kumar at TT Nagar stadium.
The awards were announced after the recommendation of the selection committee constituted by the Sports and Youth Welfare Department for the highest sports awards of Madhya Pradesh and the approval of Yashodhara Raje Scindia, State Minister of Sports and Youth Welfare.
While giving information about the Sports Investiture Awards Principal Secretary Sports Pankaj Rag and Director Sports and Youth Welfare Pawan Kumar informed that 14 Eklavya, 10 Vikram, 3 Vishwamitra and 1 Life Time Achievement Awards will be given by the state government for the year 2019.
A total of 193 applications were received for these awards. A total of 19 applications for Shree Prabhash Joshi Award were received and for life time achievement applications were recieved.
They also informed about the Sports Investiture Awards.The Eklavya Award will be given to Ajatshatru Sharma for Canoeing and Kayaking Bhind, Aditya Dubey for Tennis, Dewas, Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar for Shooting Khargone, Gargi Singh Parihar for Karate Bhopal, Anshita Pandey for Wushu Jabalpur, Param Padam Birathare for Swimming Indore, Shankar Pandey for Fencing Bhopal, Akshat Joshi-Horse Riding Ujjain, Anusha Kutumbale-Table-Tennis Indore, Priyanshu Rajawat-Badminton Dhar, Govind Bairagi Sailing Rajgarh and Ku in sports.
Shivangani Verma-Softball Tikamgarh and Ishika Chaudhary - Hockey Gwalior. The Vikram Award will be given to Rajeshwari Kusharam - Canoeing - Kayaking Bhopal, Faraz Khan - Horse Riding Bhopal, Advaita Paige - Swimming Indore, Muskan Kirar-Archery Jabalpur, Jai Meena-Soft Tennis Dewas, Ku. Chinki Yadav-Shooting Bhopal, Ku in team sports.
Pooja Parkhe-Softball Indore, Karishma Yadav-Hockey in Gwalior, Divyang Janki Bai-Judo in Jabalpur and traditional sports Chandrakant Harde-Throwball Bhopal.
For Vishwamitra Award the names include Abhilash MT-Swimming Indore, Girdhari Lal Yadav-Sailing Bhopal and Sharad JP-Kho-Kho Indore are included in the sports.
The Life Time Achievement Award will be given to Inam-ur-Rehman-Hockey Bhopal has been named for the Life Time Achievement Award for the year 2019.
Besides, no player's name has been recommended for the Prabhash Joshi Sports Award by Selection Committee of the year 2019.