Lok Sabha Question No. 278 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-04-26
Subject: Achievements in International Sports
Ministry: YOUTH AFFAIRS AND SPORTS
Asked by: C.S. PUTTARAJU

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF YOUTH AFFAIRS AND SPORTS (DEPARTMENT OF SPORTS)

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 278 TO BE ANSWERED ON 26.04.2016

Achievements in International Sports

278. SHRI C.S. PUTTA RAJU:

Will the Minister of YOUTH AFFAIRS AND SPORTS  be pleased to state:

- (a)  the  details  of  achievements  made  in  each  of  the  International Sports' competitions held during the last two years;
- (b)  the  details  of  players  of  different  sports  who  have  so  far  been awarded  with  the  national  honours/titles  like  Padma  Awards  and Bharat Ratna achievement-wise and date-wise; and
- (c) the names  of the internationally acclaimed  sportspersons belonging to different sports who are honoured/to be honoured with the aforesaid awards this year?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR YOUTH AFFAIRS AND SPORTS (SHRI SARBANANDA SONOWAL)

- (a)    The  Ministry  does not  maintain comprehensive data about the medals won by Indian sportspersons who have represented India in Sports events held in India and abroad.  However, details of number of  medals  won  by  India  in  multi-sports  events  such  as  Olympic Games, Paralympics, Asian Games, Para-Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, South Asian Games since 2012 are given in Annexure-I.
- (b)   The details of players of different sports who have been awarded with the national honours/titles like Padma Awards and Bharat Ratna are given in Annexure-II.
- (c)   Following persons who have been conferred with Padma Awards during 2016 for their achievements in the field of sports are as under:

|   S. No. | Name               | Name of Padma Award   | State to which Awardee belongs   |
|----------|--------------------|-----------------------|----------------------------------|
|        1 | Ms. Saina Nehwal   | Padma Bhushan         | Telangana                        |
|        2 | Ms. Sania Mirza    | Padma Bhushan         | Telangana                        |
|        3 | Ms. Deepika Kumari | Padma Shri            | Jharkhand                        |
|        4 | Shri Sushil Doshi  | Padma Shri            | Madhya Pradesh                   |

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Annexure-I

Annexure  referred  to  in  reply  to  part  (a)  of  Lok  Sabha  Unstarred Question No. 278 to be answered on 26.04.2016 regarding 'Achievements in International Sports' by Shri C.S. Putta Raju

Statement of number of medals won by Indian sportspersons in multisports events such as Olympic Games, Paralympics, Asian Games, Para-Asian Games, Commonwealth Games and South Asian Games since 2012

|   S. No. | Name of the sports event                              | Gold Medal   |   Silver medal | Bronze medal   |   Total |
|----------|-------------------------------------------------------|--------------|----------------|----------------|---------|
|        1 | Olympic Games 2012 (London)                           | -            |              2 | 4              |       6 |
|        2 | Paralympics, 2012 (London)                            | -            |              1 | -              |       1 |
|        3 | Commonwealth Games, 2014 (Glasgow)                    | 15           |             30 | 19             |      64 |
|        4 | Asian Games, 2014 (Incheon)                           | 11           |             10 | 36             |      57 |
|        5 | Para-Asian Games, 2014 (Incheon)                      | 3            |             14 | 16             |      33 |
|        6 | 12 th South Asian Games, 2016 (Guwahati and Shillong) | 188          |             90 | 30             |     308 |

## Annexure-II

Annexure  referred  to  in  reply  to  part  (b)  of  Lok  Sabha  Unstarred Question No. 278 to be answered on 26.04.2016 regarding 'Achievements in International Sports' by Shri C.S. Putta Raju

## LIST OF SPORTS PERSONS AWARDED PADMA AWARDS and BHARAT RATNA

## A.        Bharat Ratna -2014

|   S. N. | Name                  | Award        | State       |
|---------|-----------------------|--------------|-------------|
|       1 | Shri Sachin Tendulkar | Bharat Ratna | Maharashtra |

## B.       Padma Awards [Padma Vibushan (PV), Padma Bhushan (PB), Padma Shri (PS)]

|   S. N. | Name                          | Award   | State         |
|---------|-------------------------------|---------|---------------|
|    1956 | 1956                          | 1956    | 1956          |
|       1 | Shri Dhyan Chand              | PB      | Punjab        |
|       2 | Shri Cottari Kankaiyah Nayudu | PB      | Tamil Nadu    |
|       3 | Shri Balbir Singh             | PS      | Chandigarh    |
|    1958 | 1958                          | 1958    | 1958          |
|       4 | Shri D.P. Roy Choudhury       | PB      | Uttar Pradesh |
|       5 | Kunwar Digvijai Singh         | PS      | Uttar Pradesh |
|    1959 | 1959                          | 1959    | 1959          |
|       6 | Shri Tanzing Naorgay          | PB      | West Bengal   |
|       7 | Shri Mihir Kumar Sen          | PS      | West Bengal   |

|   S. N. | Name                           | Award   | State          |
|---------|--------------------------------|---------|----------------|
|       8 | Shri Milkha Singh              | PS      | Chandigarh     |
|    1960 | 1960                           | 1960    | 1960           |
|       9 | Shri Vijay S. Hazare           | PS      | Gujarat        |
|      10 | Shri Jasu M. Patel             | PS      | Gujarat        |
|      11 | Smt. Arati Saha                | PS      | West Bengal    |
|      12 | Brig. Gyan Singh               | PS      | Uttar Pradesh  |
|    1962 | 1962                           | 1962    | 1962           |
|      13 | Shri Nari J. Contractor        | PS      | Maharashtra    |
|      14 | Shri Sonam Gyatso              | PS      | Sikkam         |
|      15 | Shri Ramanathan Krishnan       | PS      | Tamil Nadu     |
|      16 | Shri Gostha Behari Paul        | PS      | West Bengal    |
|      17 | Shri P.R. Umrigar              | PS      | Maharashtra    |
|    1963 | 1963                           | 1963    | 1963           |
|      18 | Shri Syed Mustaq               | PS      | Madhya Pradesh |
|      19 | Shri Nawang Gombu              | PS      | West Bengal    |
|      20 | Shri Morapakan Tesian Gopalan  | PS      | Tamil Nadu     |
|      21 | Shri Charanjit Singh           | PS      | Haryana        |
|    1965 | 1965                           | 1965    | 1965           |
|      22 | Shri Nawang Gombu              | PB      | West Bengal    |
|      23 | Shri Sonam Gyatso              | PB      | Sikkim         |
|      24 | Lt. Cmndr. Mohan Singh Kohli   | PB      | Delhi          |
|      25 | Capt. Hari Pal Singh Ahluwalia | PS      | Punjab         |
|      26 | Capt. Avtar Singh Cheema       | PS      | Punjab         |
|      27 | Prof. Dinkar Balwant Deodhar   | PS      | Maharashtra    |

|   S. N. | Name                               | Award   | State         |
|---------|------------------------------------|---------|---------------|
|      28 | Shri Phu Dorjee                    | PS      | West Bengal   |
|      29 | Shri Wilson Lionel Garton Jones    | PS      | Maharashtra   |
|      30 | Shri Ang Kami                      | PS      | Assam         |
|      31 | Maj. Narender Kumar                | PS      | Punjab        |
|      32 | Harish Chander Singh Rawat         | PS      | Delhi         |
|      33 | Shri Chandra Prakash Vohra         | PS      | West Bengal   |
|      34 | Shri Sonam Wengyal                 | PS      | Sikkim        |
|    1966 | 1966                               | 1966    | 1966          |
|      35 | Shri Kishan Lal                    | PS      | Uttar Pradesh |
|    1967 | 1967                               | 1967    | 1967          |
|      36 | Shri Ramanathan Krishnan           | PB      | Tamil Nadu    |
|      37 | Shri Mihir Kumar Sen               | PB      | West Bengal   |
|      38 | Shri Shankar Laxman                | PS      | Karnataka     |
|      39 | Nawab Mohd. Mansur Ali Khan Patudi | PS      | Delhi         |
|      40 | Shri Prithipal Singh               | PS      | Punjab        |
|      41 | Shri Gurdial Singh                 | PS      | Chandigarh    |
|    1969 | 1969                               | 1969    | 1969          |
|      42 | Shri Chandrakant Gulabrao Borde    | PS      | Maharahstra   |
|    1970 | 1970                               | 1970    | 1970          |
|      43 | Shri Bishan Singh Bedi             | PS      | Delhi         |
|      44 | Shri Syed Mohd. Moinul Haq         | PS      | Bihar         |
|      45 | Shri E. Ananthrao S. Prasanna      | PS      | Karnataka     |

|   S. N. | Name                               | Award   | State          |
|---------|------------------------------------|---------|----------------|
|      46 | Shri Leslie Walter Claudius        | PS      | West Bengal    |
|      47 | Shri Ghouse Mohd. Khan             | PS      | Andhra Pradesh |
|      48 | Shri Sailendra Nath Manna          | PS      | West Bengal    |
|      49 | Shri Chandgi Ram                   | PS      | Delhi          |
|      50 | Smt. Kamaljit Sandhu               | PS      | USA            |
|      51 | Shri Gundappa Ranganath Vishwanath | PS      | Karnataka      |
|    1972 | 1972                               |         |                |
|      52 | Maj. Harsh Vardhan Bahuguna        | PS      | Uttar Pradesh  |
|      53 | Shri B. Subrahmanya Chandrasekhar  | PS      | Karnataka      |
|      54 | Shri Ajit Laxman Wadekar           | PS      | Maharashtra    |
|    1973 | 1973                               |         |                |
|      55 | Shri Vinoo Himatlal Mankad         | PB      | Gujarat        |
|      56 | Shri Farookh M. Engineer           | PS      | Maharashtra    |
|      57 | Lt. Com. Joginder Singh            | PS      | Delhi          |
|    1975 | 1975                               |         |                |
|      58 | Shri Pankaj Lall Roy               | PS      | West Bengal    |
|    1976 | 1976                               |         |                |
|      59 | Shri Roshan Lal Anand              | PS      | Punjab         |
|      60 | Shri Hari Kant Dang                | PS      | Delhi          |
|    1977 | 1977                               |         |                |
|      61 | Kum. Meena Shah                    | PS      | Uttar Pradesh  |
|    1980 | 1980                               | 1980    | 1980           |
|      62 | Shri Sunil Monahar Gavaskar        | PB      | Maharashtra    |

|   S. N. | Name                             | Award   | State       |
|---------|----------------------------------|---------|-------------|
|    1981 | 1981                             | 1981    | 1981        |
|      63 | Shri Syed M.H. Kirmani           | PS      | Karnataka   |
|      64 | Shri Kapil Dev Nikhanj           | PS      | Chandigarh  |
|      65 | Shri Prakash Ramesh Padukone     | PS      | Denmark     |
|    1983 | 1983                             | 1983    | 1983        |
|      66 | Shri Raja Bhalendra Singh        | PB      | Delhi       |
|      67 | Shri Vijay Prakash Amritraj      | PS      | Tamil Nadu  |
|      68 | Shri Guru Hanuman                | PS      | Delhi       |
|      69 | Smt. Eliza Nelson                | PS      | Maharashtra |
|      70 | Shri Chand Ram                   | PS      | Haryana     |
|      71 | Shri Kaur Singh                  | PS      | Punjab      |
|      72 | Shri Sat Pal Singh               | PS      | Delhi       |
|      73 | Shri Bahadur Singh               | PS      | Jharkhand   |
|      74 | Shri Liarenmayum Damu Singh      | PS      | Manipur     |
|      75 | Shri Raghubir Singh              | PS      | Rajasthan   |
|      76 | Miss. Manathoor Devasia Valsamma | PS      | Kerala      |
|      77 | Miss. Geeta Zutshi               | PS      | Haryana     |
|    1984 | 1984                             | 1984    | 1984        |
|      78 | Shri Michael Ferreira            | PB      | Maharashtra |
|      79 | Shri Charless Borrommio          | PS      | Bihar       |
|      80 | Shri Phu Dorjee                  | PS      | Sikkim      |
|      81 | Shri Chuni Goswami               | PS      | West Bengal |
|      82 | Col. Darshan Kumar Khullar       | PS      | Punjab      |

|   S. N. | Name                              | Award   | State          |
|---------|-----------------------------------|---------|----------------|
|      83 | Miss. Bachendri Pal               | PS      | Uttar Pradesh  |
|    1985 | 1985                              | 1985    | 1985           |
|      84 | Ms. P.T. Usha                     | PS      | Kerala         |
|    1986 | 1986                              | 1986    | 1986           |
|      85 | Miss Anupuama Abhyankar           | PS      | Maharashtra    |
|      86 | Shri Swarup Krishna Rau           | PS      | Delhi          |
|      87 | Shri Geet Shriram Sethi           | PS      | Gujarat        |
|      88 | Shri Mohmmad Shahid               | PS      | Uttar Pradesh  |
|    1987 | 1987                              | 1987    | 1987           |
|      89 | Miss. Bagyashree Vasanthrao Sathe | PS      | Maharashtra    |
|      90 | Shri Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar     | PS      | Maharashtra    |
|    1988 | 1988                              | 1988    | 1988           |
|      91 | Shri Viswanathan Anand            | PS      | Tamil Nadu     |
|      92 | Shri Mohammed Azharuddin          | PS      | Andhra Pradesh |
|    1990 | 1990                              | 1990    | 1990           |
|      93 | Kum. Chandra Prabha Aitwal        | PS      | Uttar Pradesh  |
|      94 | Shri Pradip Kumar Banerjee        | PS      | West Bengal    |
|      95 | Shri Prem Chand Degra             | PS      | Bihar          |
|      96 | Shri Gulshan Rai                  | PS      | Maharashtra    |
|      97 | Shri Jaman Lal Sharma             | PS      | Uttar Pradesh  |
|      98 | Shri Taranath Narayan Shenoy      | PS      | Maharashtra    |
|    1991 | 1991                              | 1991    | 1991           |
|      99 | Shri Lala Amarnath                | PB      | Delhi          |

| S. N.            | Name                                | Award   | State          |
|------------------|-------------------------------------|---------|----------------|
| 100.             | Prof. Dinkar Balwant Deodhar        | PB      | Maharashtra    |
| 101.             | Shri Kapil Dev Nikhanj              | PB      | Delhi          |
| 102.             | Kum. Selma Juliet Christina D'Silva | PS      | Maharashtra    |
| 103.             | Shri Sonam Paljor                   | PS      | Uttar Pradesh  |
| 104.             | Smt. Ujjwala Patil                  | PS      | Gujarat        |
| 105.             | Shri Ajit Pal Singh                 | PS      | Delhi          |
| 1992             | 1992                                | 1992    | 1992           |
| 106.             | Hony. Capt. Shriram Singh           | PS      | Delhi          |
| 1998             | 1998                                | 1998    | 1998           |
| 107.             | Shri Hukam Singh                    | PS      | Delhi          |
| 108.             | Shri Ramesh Krishnan                | PS      | Tamil Nadu     |
| 109. Shri Pargat | Singh Powar                         | PS      | Punjab         |
| 110.             | Hon. Capt. Lila Ram                 | PS      | Haryana        |
| 111.             | Smt. Shiny Wilson                   | PS      | Tamil Nadu     |
| 1999             | 1999                                | 1999    | 1999           |
| 112.             | Smt. Karnam Malleshwari             | PS      | Andhra Pradesh |
| 113.             | Shri Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar        | PS      | Maharashtra    |
| 2000             | 2000                                | 2000    | 2000           |
| 114.             | Smt. Santosh Yadav                  | PS      | Delhi          |
| 2001             | 2001                                | 2001    | 2001           |
| 115. Shri        | Viswanathan Anand                   | PB      | Tamil Nadu     |
| 116.             | Shri Mahesh Bhupathi                | PS      | Karnataka      |
| 117.             | Ms. Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla     | PS      | Karnataka      |

|   S. N. | Name                            | Award   | State          |
|---------|---------------------------------|---------|----------------|
|     118 | Ms. Bhuvneshwari Kumari         | PS      | Delhi          |
|     119 | Shri Leander Adrian Paes        | PS      | West Bengal    |
|     120 | Shri Dhanraj Pillay             | PS      | Maharashtra    |
|     121 | Ms. Sunita Rani                 | PS      | Punjab         |
|    2002 | 2002                            | 2002    | 2002           |
|     122 | Shri Chandrakant Gulabrao Borde | PB      | Maharashtra    |
|     123 | Ms. Diana Fram Edulji           | PS      | Maharashtra    |
|     124 | Shri Jaspal Rana                | PS      | Delhi          |
|    2003 | 2003                            | 2003    | 2003           |
|     125 | Shri Nandanoori Mukesh Kumar    | PS      | Andhra Pradesh |
|     126 | Shri Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal      | PS      | Uttar Pradesh  |
|     127 | Ms. Jyotirmoyee Sikdar          | PS      | West Bengal    |
|     128 | Shri Srinivas Venkataraghavan   | PS      | Tamil Nadu     |
|    2004 | 2004                            | 2004    | 2004           |
|     129 | Ms. K.M. Beenamol               | PS      | Kerala         |
|     130 | Smt. Gurmayum Anita Devi        | PS      | Manipur        |
|     131 | Shri Rahul Dravid               | PS      | Karnataka      |
|     132 | Shri Sourav Ganguly             | PS      | West Bengal    |
|     133 | Smt. Anju Bobby George          | PS      | Kerala         |
|     134 | Yog Sadashiv Prahlad Nimbalkar  | PS      | Maharashtra    |
|     135 | Shri Dilip Kumar Tirkey         | PS      | Orissa         |
|    2005 | 2005                            | 2005    | 2005           |

|   S. N. | Name                                | Award   | State          |
|---------|-------------------------------------|---------|----------------|
|     136 | Shri Pullela Gopi Chand             | PS      | Andhra Pradesh |
|     137 | Shri Anil Kumble                    | PS      | Karnataka      |
|     138 | Shri Gurbachan Singh Randhawa       | PS      | Delhi          |
|     139 | Lt. Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore | PS      | Delhi          |
|     140 | Ms. Rachel Thomas                   | PS      | Delhi          |
|    2006 | 2006                                | 2006    | 2006           |
|     141 | Dr. Vijaypat Singhania              | PB      | Maharashtra    |
|     142 | Smt. Madhumita Bisht                | PS      | Delhi          |
|     143 | Shri Mohan Singh Gunjyal            | PS      | Andhra Pradesh |
|     144 | Smt. Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom   | PS      | Manipur        |
|     145 | Miss. Sania Mirza                   | PS      | Andhra Pradesh |
|    2007 | 2007                                | 2007    | 2007           |
|     146 | Shri Bahadur Singh Sagoo            | PS      | Punjab         |
|     147 | Ms. Koneru Humpy                    | PS      | Andhra Pradesh |
|    2008 | 2008                                | 2008    | 2008           |
|     148 | Shri Chiranjeev Singh               | PS      | Punjab         |
|     149 | Shri Bhaichung Bhutia               | PS      | Sikkim         |
|     150 | Smt. Bula Chowdhury Chakraborty     | PS      | West Bengal    |
|     151 | Late Sir Edmund Hillary             | PV      | New Zealand    |
|     152 | Shri Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar        | PV      | Maharashtra    |
|    2009 | 2009                                | 2009    | 2009           |
|     153 | Shri Abhinav Bindra                 | PB      | Punjab         |

|   S. N. | Name                                | Award   | State          |
|---------|-------------------------------------|---------|----------------|
|     154 | Shri Pankaj Advani                  | PS      | Karnataka      |
|     155 | Shri Mahendra Singh Dhoni           | PS      | Jharkhand      |
|     156 | Shri Balbir Singh Kullar            | PS      | Punjab         |
|     157 | Shri Harbhajan Singh Plaha          | PS      | Punjab         |
|    2010 | 2010                                | 2010    | 2010           |
|     158 | Shri Ignace Tirkey                  | PS      | Orrisa         |
|     159 | Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan        | PS      | Tamil Nadu     |
|     160 | Shri Ramkant Vithal Achrekar        | PS      | Maharashtra    |
|     161 | Ms. Saina Nehwal                    | PS      | Andhra Pradesh |
|     162 | Shri Vijender Singh                 | PS      | Haryana        |
|     163 | Shri Virendra Sehwag                | PS      | Delhi          |
|    2011 | 2011                                | 2011    | 2011           |
|     164 | Ms. Nameirakpam Kunjarani           | PS      | Manipur        |
|     165 | Shri Sushil Kumar                   | PS      | Delhi          |
|     166 | Shri Vangipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman | PS      | Andhra Pradesh |
|     167 | Shri Gagan Narang                   | PS      | Andhra Pradesh |
|     168 | Ms. Krishna Poonia                  | PS      | Rajasthan      |
|     169 | Shri Harbhajan Singh                | PS      | Punjab         |
|    2012 | 2012                                | 2012    | 2012           |
|     170 | Shri Ajeet Bajaj                    | PS      | Delhi          |
|     171 | Ms. Jhulan Goswami                  | PS      | West Bengal    |
|     172 | Shri Zafar Iqbal                    | PS      | Uttar Pradesh  |
|     173 | Shri Devendra Jhajrija              | PS      | Rajasthan      |
|     174 | Shri Limba Ram                      | PS      | Rajasthan      |

|   S. N. | Name                                             | Award   | State            |
|---------|--------------------------------------------------|---------|------------------|
|     175 | Shri Syed Mohammed Arif                          | PS      | Andhra Pradesh   |
|     176 | Prof. Ravi Chaturvedi                            | PS      | Delhi            |
|     178 | Shri Prabhakar Vaidya                            | PS      | Maharashtra      |
|    2013 | 2013                                             | 2013    | 2013             |
|     179 | Shri Rahul Dravid                                | PB      | Karnataka        |
|     180 | Ms. H. Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom              | PB      | Manipur          |
|     181 | Ms. Premlata Agrawal                             | PS      | Jharkhand        |
|     182 | Shri Yogeshwar Dutt                              | PS      | Haryana          |
|     183 | Shri Hosanagara Nagarajegowda Girisha            | PS      | Karnataka        |
|     184 | Subedar Major Vijay Kumar                        | PS      | Himachal Pradesh |
|     185 | Shri Ngangom Dingko Singh                        | PS      | Maharashtra      |
|     186 | Naib Subedar Bajrang Lal Takhar                  | PS      | Rajasthan        |
|    2014 | 2014                                             | 2014    | 2014             |
|     187 | Shri Pulella Gopichand                           | PB      | Andhra Pradesh   |
|     188 | Shri Leander Paes                                | PB      | Maharashtra      |
|     189 | Ms. Anjum Chopra                                 | PS      | Delhi            |
|     190 | Ms. Sunil Dabas                                  | PS      | Kabaddi          |
|     191 | Shri Lov Raj Singh Dharmashaktu (Mountaineering) | PS      | Delhi            |
|     192 | Ms. Deepika Pallikal                             | PS      | Tamil Nadu       |
|     193 | Shri H. Boniface Prabhu                          | PS      | Karnataka        |
|     194 | Shri Yuvraj Singh                                | PS      | Haryana          |

|   S. N. | Name                             | Award   | State         |
|---------|----------------------------------|---------|---------------|
|     195 | Ms. Mamta Sodha (Mountaineering) | PS      | Haryana       |
|    2015 | 2015                             | 2015    | 2015          |
|     196 | Shri Satpal                      | PB      | Delhi         |
|     197 | Ms. Saba Anjum                   | PS      | Chhattisgarh  |
|     198 | Ms. Mithali Raj                  | PS      | Telangana     |
|     199 | Ms. P.V. Sindhu                  | PS      | Badminton     |
|     200 | Shri Sardara Singh               | PS      | Haryana       |
|     201 | Ms. Arunima Sinha                | PS      | Uttar Pradesh |