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New Delhi, Aug 29: The President, Pranab Mukherjee gave away National Sports and Adventure Awards at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan today. The function was attended by Union Minister for Tourism Subhod Kant Sahai , Ajay Maken, Minister of State (I/C) for Youth Affairs & Sports and several eminent sports persons.
Vijay Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt were awarded Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award for this year for their sterling performance in Shooting and Wrestling events at the recently concluded London Olympics. The award carries a statuettes, citations and cash prize of Rs 7.5 lakh each.
The President also gave away Dronacharya Awards for the this year to the following eight Sports persons in recognition of their meritorious achievements in the field of coaching. The award carries a statuettes, citations and enhanced cash prize of Rs 5 lakh each.
Virender Poonia, Athletics, Sunil Dabas, Kabaddi (Women), Yashvir Singh, Wrestling, Harendra Singh, Hockey, Dr. Satyapal Singh Para Sports (Athletics), J.S. Bhatia Athletics, Bhawani Mukherjee, Table Tennis B.I. Fernandez, Cuban Boxing Coach Boxing.
25 Sports persons were conferred Arjuna Awards for the year 2012, in recognition of their outstanding achievements in the respective field of sports. The Award carries a statuettes, citations and enhanced cash prize of Rs 5 lakh each. The Sports persons are as follows:
Three sportspersons from Manipur got Arjuna awards. They were Laishram Bombayla Devi , Ng. Sonia Chanu and M. Bimoljit Singh. Jagraj Singh Mann (Athletics ), Shri Gundeep Kumar ( Hockey) , Shri Vinod Kumar ( Wrestling) and Shri Sukhbir Singh Tokas ( Para-Sports) were conferred Dhyan Chand Awards for the year 2012 for their contribution to sports by their performance and efforts to promote the sports. The award carries a statuettes, citations and cash prize of Rs 5 lakh each.
With a view to recognize, the contribution made to sports development by entities other than sportspersons and coaches, the Government had instituted in 2009, a new award “Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar”, which has four categories, namely, community sports development, promotion of sports academies of excellence, support to elite sportspersons and employment to sportspersons.
The Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL) was conferred “Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar” for the year 2012 under the category of Community Sports Identification and Nurturing of Budding Young Talent . Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB) received the award under the category of Financial Support for Sports Excellence . Services Sports Control Board (SSCB) also received the Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar” for Establishment Management of Sports Academics of Excellence whereas Air India Sports Promotion Board got the award under Employment of Sportspersons and Sports Welfare Measures. Entities selected for Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar were given Trophy and Citation.
The President also conferred Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards for the year 2011 to recognize the contribution and performance of the awardees in the field of adventure sports. Col. Anand Swaroop, SM and Sub. Rajendra Singh Jalal were given award for Land Adventure. Ms. Bhakti Sharma for Water Adventure and Shri Mandip Singh Soin received Life Time Achievement award. The award carries cash prize of Rs 5 lakh and Bronze Statuette along with a citation. Other Arjuna awardees include, Deepika Kumari , Sudha Singh ,. Kavita Ramdas Raut, Ashwani Ponnappa , Parupalli Kashyap,,. Aditya S. Mehta . Vikas Krishan Yuvraj Singh . Sardar Singh.

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Imphal, Aug 27: Kh Kothajit Singh, a member of Indian Hockey contingent in the recently concluded London Olympics, 2012 was given a cash incentive award of Rs. 20 lakhs by the State Government today.
Chief Minister Shri O. Ibobi Singh who also holds the additional portfolio of Youth Affairs & Sports presented the cheque of the Rs 20 lakhs to Kh. Kothajit Singh in a function held in the Office chamber of the Chief Minister’s Secretariat, Imphal.
Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister said that the government had to accord Olympian status to the hockey player from the State Kh, Kothajit since he had been qualified for the Indian Hockey team for London Olympics. He expressed his unhappiness for Kothajit’s exclusion in the reception ceremony of the London Olympians.
Manipur Olympic Association President Bijoy Koijam, YAS Director H. Deleep Singh, Former Olympian and Manipur Hockey President Ksh. Thoiba Singh, Posterial Hockey Academy Imphal Secretary Ksh. Romesh Singh, father of Kh. Kothajit Kh. Dhananjoy Singh and officials of Sports department were present on the occasion.
The State Government on Aug 19 last felicitated Mary Kom, who won Bronze medal in Women’s Boxing (51 Kg) and awarded her Rs 75 lakhs and she was also promoted to SP , Manipur Police. Other State Olympians namely Laishram Devendro, Laishram Bombayla and Ngangbam Soniya were awarded Rs 20 lakhs each.

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A football match between Willington Phoenix and Shillong Lajong will be played tomorrow at Khuman Lampak main stadium at 2 pm. The organizers appealed to all to extend full cooperation in organizing the event.Bomb blast
Some persons blasted a bomb and fired several rounds last night around 10.30 pm at the residence of one L Chinglen of Nongren Maning Leikai . Around 10.40 pm some persons fired at the house of one L Tarpon of the same locality who is contesting for Pradhan. Meanwhile a grenade was found at the gate of one K Ibochouba, AE, PHED of Sagoltongba Awang Leikai this morning.

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IMPHAL, Aug 24: NNN Yamthong Haokip has said that youths love sports but due to lack of facilities and guidance they could not prosper.

Inaugurating Khanglai Football Club, also known as F.C Khanglai in Saikul on Thursday, the local MLA exhorted that youths who love sports should be given a chance to prosper in the discipline of sports of their choice. “If this is done, wealth, name and fame can be earned while doing away the bad habit of indulging in unaccepted activities,” stated Yamthong Haokip, who is the MLA from Saikul.

Attended by leaders of Kuki Inpi, Saikul, Kuki Students Organisation (KSO) of Saikul area, Saikul Hill Town members, ADC members, village chiefs of Saikul area in the inauguration function of Khanglai Football Club, YamthongHaokip assured the gathering that he would extend help whatever he can to promote sports in his constituency. He then exhorted the members of Khanglai Footbal Club (F.C Khanglai) to move forward relentlessly in promoting football for the harvest of youth talents in Saikul sub division. “Determination, will power and health are the essential parts of an ideal sports person,” said Yamthong Haokip.

Meanwhile, noted social worker who is also the president of Kuki Inpi, Saikul Area Mr. Thangkam Lupheng also attended the function. When asked by NNN about the sports potential in Saikul area, Thangkam Lupheng stated that if groom the youths well many Messis, Maradonas, Ronaldos and Peles will come up from Saikul area. He also said that almost all the people in his area are football lovers though they also love other disciplines of sports. “The all time favuorite here is football and there are many excellent sports persons here but the only thing is to groom them properly and also by providing needed facilities,” stated the social worker.

Meanwhile, Pastor L James dedicated the Khanglai Football Club with a soulful prayer.

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Imphal, Aug 19 UNA: “I will continue my hobby and in forthcoming Brazil 2016 Olympic game I will change the colors of this medal” said MC Mary Kom while speaking to media person at Imphal Tulihal Airport on Sunday.
She didn’t believe that she might be received in a grand manner by garlanding at Indira Gandhi International airport, Delhi by the state concerned as well as here in today at Imphal, airport. And she expresses her gratitude to all who come to wel-come her.
After Mary Kom and Th Devendra landed at Imphal Tulihal airport the sport lover of Manipur and there fans escorted them including the Royal Enfied Riders Association and the state government police authorities in a mass way. And they were carried around the heart of Imphal city.
In the meantime the state Youth Affairs and Sport and All Manipur Amateurs Boxing Association organized a reception program at Khuman Lampak Indoor Staduim and honor MC. Mary Kom (bronze medalist) and the state London Olympian.
During the reception program, Chief Minister O. Ibobi Singh, president of Olympic Association Bijoy Koijam, Speaker Th Lokeshore, Home minister, G Gaikhangam and Work minister, Kh Ratan attended the programme, as chief guest, president and guest of honours respectively.
Addressing at the reception program, Chief Minister, O Ibobi Singh ask and appealed the sportspersons who are working with various states to come back to Manipur, for the sake of Manipur. And the state government is ready to give there incentive. However due the state government financial problem their might be little different with the other states.
Chief Minister further said that, for MC. Mary Kom, the state government has already announced to upgrade from Asst Superintendent Post to Superintendent of Police along with a land of around 2 acre at Lamphelpat areas.
Regarding Kothajit, a Hockey player from the state who represents the India hockey team in the Olympic, Chief Minister said that he is a well known player for the Olympic for the country, and due to unfortunate decisions taken by the state government Kothajit was not included for this incentive, And so the state government regretted that Kothajit is not included today in this grant reception program. However the state government will give the same incentive to him.
In the meantime, the chief minster along with his council of minister distributed the incentive awards Rs.75 lakhs to MC Mary Kom, broze medalist of Olympic London, and Rs. 20 Lakhs to the other Olympians London, accept Kothajit (Hockey player) was not included.

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Manipur Information Centre
New Delhi, August 14: In a befitting kick-start to a long series of recognitions and rewards awaiting India ’s boxing sensation Mary Kom back home, the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs was the first to felicitate the Olympic bronze medalist here this morning, immediately after she touched down the National Capital from London. Union Minister for Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj , V. Kishore Chandra Deo honoured the 29-year-old celebrity with a cheque of Rs 10 lakh at The Ashok hotel at Chanakyapuri here at 11 am. Sitting in the middle chair on the dais, Mary Kom who was flanked by Uinon Minister V. Kishore Chandra Deo on her right and Union Minister of State for Tribal affairs on her left received huge cheers from enthusiastic national media and the audience. Media swarmed on Mary Kom again at the venue after she met a large number of media at the airport this early morning.
In her maiden speech in the national capital after her arrival from London , Mary Kom expressed gratitude to all the people of India who extended constant support, prayed and wished for her to win the medal in London Olympics and I got a medal which was my long cherished dream on Olympics. She expected the gold medal but she couldn’t get it, she added.
She announced that she would try again for gold in Rio de Janeiro Olympics and sought the support from the public again. She said, “Support me and pray for me, I will go for the gold in Rio Olympics’. Born to a couple engaged in jhum (slash-and-burn) cultivation at Kangathei, Churachandpur District in Manipur, Mary Kom also had her share of hurdles like any tribal girl when she decided to enter the rings.
She burst into the national scene 12 years ago, became a mother of two (twin) sons, now aged five, midway her career, yet tenaciously sprang back to scene – and went on to win laurels. A bronze in the 51-kg flyweight category in London 2012 was the latest achievement in her progressively glorious career after achieving five world championship titles.
“This felicitation is special in many ways,” said Jiji Thomson, the Managing Director of Tribal Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited(TRIFED) that functioned under the Tribal Ministry. “Mary Kom epitomizes the grit and guts of Indian woman. She is going to be the flag-bearer and beacon for thousands of girls belonging to the tribal communities and aspiring to achieve greater heights”. In his opening felicitation speech, Union Minister of Tribal Affairs V. Kishore Chandra Deo said, “We are gathered here today to honor a lady, a tribal athlete, who has put India on the boxing map of the World (women boxing to be specific) by punching home an Olympic medal for India . She is the First woman athlete to bring home a boxing medal for the country in the first even Olympic featuring Women boxing as a field of competition. She is also the first Tribal Athlete to bring home an Olympic medal in the individual category. Please join me in congratulating the Tribal superwoman, M.C.Mary Kom”.
Addressing to M.C.Mary Kom, the Union Minister said, “We are proud of you. You have made Tribal India proud by bringing home an Olympic Medal for the country. It is belief and wish that your spectacular feats for the country will inspire endless generations of tribal communities and the rest of India in scaling newer and higher heights of Glory in future.”
He further lauded her, “M.C. Mary Kom created history by becoming India ’s first woman boxer to win a medal at the Olympics. Our very own talented and hard-working lady from the Northeast won a bronze in the 51-kg event at the just-concluded London Games’.
Kishore Chandra Deo described how Mary Kom was. He narrated, “Imagine a little girl being born to a jhum cultivation couple in a remote place in the hilly Northeastern state of Manipur almost three decades ago. In her toddler days and even later, Mary Kom saw her parents slashing and burning tracts of hilly land – and going ahead with their farming season one after the other.
Her interest, though, drifted onto athletics. She began participating with great flair and success in sporting events that were hosted by her schools in the city of Moirang initially and that in the state capital of Imphal subsequently. It was around that time that boxing started to appeal to her like never before. The dynamics of the combative sport and beauty of its movements as a martial art kept growing inside her as days passed by. They got a sudden boost in the year 2000, when inspiration came directly from none other than her state-mate Dingko Singh, a boxer who won a gold medal at the 1998 Asian Games at Bangkok’.
“So, what is special about the Olympic medal of Mary Kom”? The Union Minister asked himself and replied, “Well, let us no forget that India has a total of nearly 10 million tribal people. For that fraternity – underprivileged in general – Mary Kom’s latest achievement at London can be a matter of major inspiration. More so, considering that of the five titles India won at the 2012 Olympics, it is a tribal who has pocketed one”.
He further stated that the Government had to gain a clearer vision on how to brighten up the scheme of things in sports and games. “We should give a serious thought about building up a system that would ensure the strengthening of the skills of budding athletes at the grassroots level. Mary Kom’s story tells us the amazing results one can achieve largely through individual efforts rather than through a sound institutional setup. We have to alter this equation”, the Union Minister added.
Mary Kom’s mother Mangte Akham Kom, husband K.Onler Kom and his twin sons Rechungvar and Khupneivar were present in the felicitation function. The function was concluded with a colourful Komrem dance organised by the Komrem communities of Delhi . Mary Kom also joined the dance for a few minutes.

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