DEHRADUN
: Chief minister
Trivendra Singh Rawat felicitated state
athletes
in an award ceremony organised by state
sports
department at the city’s IRDT Auditorium on Wednesday.
The selected athletes were honoured with three different awards — Devbhoomi Uttarakhand Khel Ratna Award (meant for current athletes), Devbhoomi Uttarakhand Dronacharya Award (meant for sports coaches), and Lifetime Achievement Award (meant for athletes who have given extraordinary service to a particular sport).
Racewalker Manish Singh Rawat and badminton para-athlete Manoj Sarkar were given Devbhoomi Uttarakhand Khel Ratna Award. Athletics coach Anoop Bisht was honoured with Devbhoomi Uttarakhand Dronacharya Award and volleyball player Arun Kumar Sood was given the Lifetime Achievement Award. During his speech,
CM Rawat
announced that soon a government sports college exclusively for females will be constructed in
Rudrapur
. “We are making attempts to ensure that more and more Uttarakhand athletes participate in the Khelo India Youth Games,” he said.