Arjuna Award
S.No Year Name
1 1961 P. K. Banerjee
2 1962 Tulsidas Balaram
3 1963 Chuni Goswami
4 1964 Jarnail Singh
5 1965 Arun Lal Ghosh
6 1966 Yousuf Khan
7 1967 Peter Thangaraj
8 1969 Inder Singh
9 1970 Syed Naeemuddin
10 1971 C. P. Singh
11 1973 Magan Singh
12 1978-79 Gurdev Singh Gill
13 1979-80 Prasun Banerjee
14 1980-81 Mohammed Habib
15 1981 Sudhir Karmakar
16 1983 Shanti Mullick
17 1989 Subrata Bhattacharya
18 1997 Brahmanand Sankhwalkar
19 1998 Baichung Bhutia
20 2002 Bruno Coutinho
Football
The Arjuna Awards are given by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in sports. Started 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 many athletes 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 revises the criteria for the Arjuna Award over the years. 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. The total amount awarded is ₹350,000,000.