Claim: Sachin Tendulkar was awarded money.

The Arjuna Awards are given by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports , government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in National sports . Instituted in 1961 , the award carries a cash prize of 500,000 , a bronze statue of Arjuna and a scroll .   Over the years the scope of the award has been expanded and a large number of sports persons who belonged to the pre-Arjuna Award era were also included in the list . Further , the number of disciplines for which the award is given was increased to include indigenous games and the physically handicapped category .   The Government has recently revised the scheme for the Arjuna Award . As per the revised guidelines , to be eligible for the Award , a sportsperson should not only have had good performance consistently for the previous four years at the international level with excellence for the year for which the Award is recommended , but should also have shown qualities of leadership , sportsmanship and a sense of discipline .   From the year 2001 , the award is given only in disciplines falling under the following categories :  Olympic Games / Asian Games / Commonwealth Games / World Cup / World Championship Disciplines and Cricket  Indigenous Games  Sports for the Physically Challenged   In mid-August 2011 , 19 athletes were announced as Arjuna recipients ; the high number due to the inclusion of both the 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2010 Asian Games in the Arjuna qualifying year .   In 2012 , 25 sports-persons were conferred with the Arjuna awards .