Deadline: 20-Sep-22
The Department of Sports is seeking nominations for its Dronacharya Award 2022 to outstanding coaches in Sports and Games.
Objectives
The Award is intended to:
- Honour coaches who have done outstanding and meritorious work on a consistent basis and enabled sportspersons to excel in international events
- Motivate coaches to dedicate themselves with a singularity of purpose of raising the standard of sportspersons to highest performance in international events and thus bring glory to the country.
Decoration
- The Award shall comprise of a statuette, a certificate, ceremonial dress and a cash prize of Rs. 10,00,000/- (Rupees ten lakhs) for Regular and Rs. 15,00,000 for Lifetime which will be presented to the winners at the function for the presentation of the Award to be held at a place and on a date to be decided by competent authority.
- No Award will be made for a second time to the same person.
- The Award may be given posthumously if such an occasion arises.
No. of Awardees
Ordinarily not more than 5 awards could be given in any calendar year, Out of these, 2 will be earmarked for lifetime contribution in couching.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for the award, coach, whether he/she works full time or part time as coach, he/she should have produced outstanding achievement over a period of four years immediately preceding the year in which the award is to be given. During the years when Olympic Games, Commonwealth and Asian Games are held, achievements of the sportspersons, who have been imparted couching, upto conclusion of these Games will also be considered. Nominated coach will have to submit details of periods for which he/she coached the disciple(s) in question against whose performance he/she is seeking the Award. The Ministry reserves the right to seek affidavit from the sportsperson concerned where it is found that more than one coach is claiming credit for achievements of a sportsperson.
- For 2 awards earmarked for lifetime contribution in coaching, achievements of the coach in producing outstanding sportspersons over a period of 20 years or more will be taken into account.
- A coach found encouraging the use of drugs/substances banned by the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) based on a sample collected by the National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) or any other agency authorized by WADA and tested by National Dope Testing Laboratory or any other WADA accredited laboratory, by a sportsperson whom he/she is coaching, will not be eligible for the Dronacharya Award. A coach against whom enquiry is going on/pending in this regard will also be ineligible.
- Sportspersons who have already been conferred with Dhyan Chand Award will not be eligible to apply for Dronacharya Award.
For more information, visit https://dbtyas-sports.gov.in/home/Guidelines